àlainn

See also: alainn and álainn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish álaind (“lovely, fine, splendid”); *ad-lainn; See loinn. Stokes prefers referring it to áil (“pleasant”), *pagli-, English fair, root pag. But ra-laind (“pleasant”), *ad-pland (Holden).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːɫ̪ɪɲ/

Adjective

àlainn (comparative àilne)

1. beautiful, fair, lovely.

   'S àlainn an gille bàn sin ann...! ― Beautiful is that flaxen-haired lad over there...!

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
àlainn	n-àlainn	h-àlainn	t-àlainn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “àlainn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “àlainn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[2], Stirling, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “álaind”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language