altram

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Irish

Etymology

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From Old Irish altram, an older verbal noun of ailid (nourishes; rears, fosters) (compare oiliúint f).

Noun

altram m (genitive singular altrama)

  1. fosterage

Declension

Derived terms

  • altramú m (fosterage)
  • buime f (foster-mother, nurse)
  • comhalta m (foster-brother, foster-sister)
  • daltán m ((little) foster-child; young pupil)
  • dalta m (foster-child)
  • máithrigh (mother, bear; foster, verb)
  • oide m (foster-father)
  • oil (nourish, rear, foster; train, educate, verb)
  • oiliúint f (nurture, upbringing, fostering care)
  • oiliúnach (nurturing, fostering, adjective)

Mutation

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

References


Old Irish

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Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

altram n (genitive altrammae)

  1. verbal noun of ailid

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Irish: altram
  • Scottish Gaelic: altram

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
altram
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-altram
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References


Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish altram, verbal noun of ailid (nourishes; rears, fosters).

Noun

altram m (genitive singular altraim)

  1. verbal noun of altraim
  2. fostering, nourishing, nursing, rearing

Derived terms

Mutation

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “altram”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “altram(m)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language