talam

See also: tālam and tālām

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *talamū, from Proto-Indo-European *tl̥-mon-, root *tel-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtalaṽ/

Noun

talam m (genitive talman, nominative plural talmain)

1. earth, (dry) land
2. land, country
3. (element) earth
4. earth, soil, dirt, clay

Declension

Masculine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	talam	talmainL	talmain
Vocative	talam	talmainL	talmanaH
Accusative	talmainN	talmainL	talmanaH
Genitive	talman	talmanL	talmanN
Dative	talmainL, talamL	talmanaib	talmanaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: talamh
• Manx: thalloo
• Scottish Gaelic: talamh

Mutation

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

References

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