áil
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish áil (“act of asking; request, wish”), from Proto-Celtic *yālos (“praise, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-lo- (“zeal”) (compare Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos)).
Noun
áil f (genitive singular ála, nominative plural ála)
- verbal noun of áil
- (literary) desire, wish
Declension
Derived terms
- is áil le (“to desire, wish”)
Verb
áil (present analytic áileann, future analytic áilfidh, verbal noun áil, past participle áilte)
- (transitive, literary) request, entreat
- (transitive, literary) desire, wish
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis (except an)
Etymology 2
Noun
áil m
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
áil | n-áil | háil | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- áill (before a dental consonant)
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *yālos (“praise, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-lo- (“zeal”) (compare Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos)).
Pronunciation
Noun
áil
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
áil (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-áil |
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), “áil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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