aillse
Irish
Noun
aillse f (genitive singular aillse, nominative plural aillsí)
- Obsolete spelling of ailse (“cancer”)
Usage notes
- A number of Irish dictionaries (beginning in the 1700s by confusing several different Irish and Scottish Gaelic words, and spreading by copying) listed "fairy" and "delay, heedlessness, neglect" as other meanings of this word, but they are ghost senses and do not exist.[1]
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aillse | n-aillse | haillse | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- an article in Scottish Gaelic Studies 3-4 (1929), page 54, says: "Aillse, "a fairy," appears first in Lhuyd (p. 426), who marks it as a Scottish word. The next lexicographer to include it was Shaw, who explains it as "a fairy, a diminutive creature." O'Reilly, as usual, took over the word from Shaw. Coneys copied O'Reilly, at the same time providing the word with a plural, aillseacha, and quoting the phrase, Ni lugha orm aillseacha ciaróg 'na thu. He thus mixed up two distinct words, the Scottish aillse, and the Irish aillseach, 'a chafer, ear-wig'."
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɪlʃʲə/
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aillse | n-aillse | h-aillse | t-aillse |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “aillsiu”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
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