athléim

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish athléim.[1] By surface analysis, ath- +‎ léim.

Alternative forms

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Verb

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athléim (present analytic athléimeann, future analytic athléimfidh, verbal noun athléim, past participle athléimthe)

  1. to rebound (bound or spring back from a force)
  2. to jump back
Conjugation
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Noun

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athléim f (genitive singular athléime, nominative plural athléimeanna)

  1. rebound (recoil of an object bouncing off another)
  2. a jump back
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 23:
      də lēm n̥ fȧr əŕ xlai agəs hic n̥ klai; hug šē alēm agəs hānig šē sl̄ān ō ʒørtū.
      [Do léim an fear ar chlaí agus thit an claí; thug sé athléim agus tháinig sé slán ó ghortú.]
      The man jumped on a stone wall and the stone wall fell; he made a jump back and came away safe from injury.
  3. verbal noun of athléim
Declension
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

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Verb

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athléim

  1. first-person singular present indicative/imperative of athléigh

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithléimm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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