eilit

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish ailit, from Old Irish elit (“doe, hind”),[2] from Proto-Celtic *elantī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eilid.

Pronunciation

Noun

eilit f (genitive singular eilite or eilte, nominative plural eilití or eilte)

  1. doe, hind (female deer)
  2. (figurative, derogatory) tall, thin, badly dressed woman
    Synonym: feadóg

Declension

Declension of eilit (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eilit eilití
vocative a eilit a eilití
genitive eilite eilití
dative eilit eilití
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an eilit na heilití
genitive na heilite na n-eilití
dative leis an eilit
don eilit 		leis na heilití

Alternative declension:

Declension of eilit (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eilit eilte
vocative a eilit a eilte
genitive eilte eilte
dative eilit eilte
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an eilit na heilte
genitive na heilte na n-eilte
dative leis an eilit
don eilit 		leis na heilte

Derived terms

  • eilit mhaol f (“hornless doe”)
  • craiceann eilite m (“doeskin”)
  • lao eilite m (“fawn”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of eilit
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eilit n-eilit heilit not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “eilit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “elit, ailit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 157, page 71

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