cú allaid

Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /kuː ˈal͈əðʲ/
• (later) IPA^(key): /kuː ˈal͈əɣʲ/

Noun

cú allaid m (genitive con allaidh, nominative plural coin allaidh)

1. wolf

   Synonyms: cú, macc tíre

Descendants

• Irish: cú allaidh

Old Irish

Etymology

From cú (“dog”) +‎ allaid (“wild”).

Noun

cú allaid m (genitive unattested, nominative plural coin altai)

1. wolf
   • Poems of the Codex St. Pauli, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 293, line 6

     Ma rom·thoicther-sa inso rop ith ⁊ mlicht ad·cear; manim·rothcaither ropat choin altai ⁊ ois ⁊ imthecht slebe ⁊ oaic Féne ad·cear.

     If this is destined for me, may it be corn and milk I see; if it is not destined for me, may it be wolves, deer, wandering on the mountain, and the warriors of the Féini I see. [Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus does not translate the occurrences of ro·toicther]

Inflection

Masculine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cú allaid	coin altai	coin altai
Vocative	cú allaid	coin altai	cona altai
Accusative	coin n-allaid	coin altai	cona altai
Genitive	con allaid	con altae, con allaid	con n-altae, con n-allaid
Dative	coin allaid, cú allaid	conaib altaib	conaib altaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cú allaid	chú allaid	cú allaid pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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