adhall
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish adall (“visit, meeting”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
adhall m (genitive singular adhaill)
- heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate) (used primarily of dogs)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 4:
- ʒā ȷȧgəx aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš ə n-ām, vērət šī kuən əníš.
- [Dá dtagadh adhall ar an mbitch in am, bhéarfadh sí cuain anois.]
- If the bitch had come into heat in time, she’d have a litter now.
- tā aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš. tā n vitš fȳ aiəl̥̄.
- [Tá adhall ar an mbitch. / Tá an bhitch faoi adhall.]
- The bitch is in heat.
Declension[edit]
Declension of adhall
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms[edit]
- faoi adhall (“in heat, on heat”)
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| adhall | n-adhall | hadhall | t-adhall |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References[edit]
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 adall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aḋall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 4
- “adhall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Entries containing “adhall” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “adhall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.