eallach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ellach (“goods, property, livestock”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

eallach m (genitive singular eallaigh, nominative plural eallaí)

  1. cattle

Declension

Declension of eallach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eallach eallaí
vocative a eallaigh a eallaí
genitive eallaigh eallaí
dative eallach eallaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-eallach na heallaí
genitive an eallaigh na n-eallaí
dative leis an eallach
don eallach 		leis na heallaí

Quotations

  • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 22:
    ḱērd ə ńīs nə strænšəŕī šin ən̄šó? ȷīln̥̄ šēd ȧl̄əx.
    [Céard a níos na strainséirí sin anseo? Díolann siad eallach.]
    What do those strangers do here? They sell cattle.
  • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, § 253, page 91:
    lʹeʃ ə NʹαLαχ
    [leis an eallach]
    with the cattle

Mutation

Mutated forms of eallach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eallach n-eallach heallach t-eallach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ellach ‘act of joining; act of taking possession’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ellach ‘cattle’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 206, page 79

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ellach (“goods, property, livestock”).

Pronunciation

Noun

eallach f or m (genitive singular eallacha, plural eallachan or eallaichean)

  1. burden, armful, load
  2. trick
  3. battle, charge
  4. bracket
  5. herd
  6. cattle given as tocher or dot

Usage notes

  • Always masculine in the west of Ross-shire.

Mutation

Mutation of eallach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eallach n-eallach h-eallach t-eallach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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