Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aclaid(e) (“acolyte”), from Late Latin acolythus, from Ancient Greek ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “follower, attendant”).
Noun
acalaí m (genitive singular acalaí, nominative plural acalaithe)
- (Christianity) acolyte
Declension
Declension of acalaí (fourth declension)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of acalaí
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| acalaí
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n-acalaí
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hacalaí
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t-acalaí
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “acalaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “acolyte”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 aclaid(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “acalaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm