eallach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ellach (“goods, property, livestock”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

eallach m (genitive singular eallaigh, nominative plural eallaí)

  1. cattle
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 22:
      ḱērd ə ńīs nə strænšəŕī šin ən̄šó? ȷīln̥̄ šēd ȧl̄əx.
      [Céard a níos na strainséirí sin anseo? Díolann siad eallach.]
      What do those strangers do here? They sell cattle.
    • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, § 253, page 91:
      lʹeʃ ə NʹαLαχ
      [leis an eallach]
      with the cattle

Declension
Declension of eallach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative eallach eallaí
Vocative a eallaigh a eallaí
Genitive eallaigh eallaí
Dative eallach eallaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-eallach na heallaí
Genitive an eallaigh na n-eallaí
Dative leis an eallach

don eallach

 leis na heallaí

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith 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.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ellach ‘act of joining; act of taking possession’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 ellach ‘cattle’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jaɫ̪əx/

Noun

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

  1. burden, armful, load
  2. trick
  3. battle, charge
  4. bracket
  5. herd
  6. cattle given as tocher or dot

Usage notes

Always masculine in the west of Ross-shire.

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
eallachn-eallachh-eallacht-eallach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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