adhal

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish adal, a variant of Old Irish áel (“fleshfork; trident”).

Noun

adhal m (genitive singular adhail, nominative plural adhail)

  1. fork; trident

Declension
Declension of adhal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative adhal adhail
Vocative a adhail a adhala
Genitive adhail adhal
Dative adhal adhail

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-adhal na hadhail
Genitive an adhail na n-adhal
Dative leis an adhal

don adhal

 leis na hadhail

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
adhal n-adhal hadhal t-adhal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "adhal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “adal” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “2 áel” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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