eallach

Irish

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

eallach m (genitive singular eallaigh, nominative plural eallaí)

cattle
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 22:
  ḱērd ə ńīs nə strænšəŕī šin ən̄šó? ȷīln̥̄ šēd ȧl̄əx.
  conventional orthography: Céard a níos na strainséirí sin anseo? Díolann siad eallach.
  What do those strangers do here? They sell cattle.

Declension of eallach

First declension

Bare forms:

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eallach	n-eallach	heallach	t-eallach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

“1 ellach ‘act of joining; act of taking possession’” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“2 ellach ‘cattle’” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“eallaċ” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
"eallach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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

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

Always masculine in the west of Ross-shire.

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eallach	n-eallach	h-eallach	t-eallach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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