adhal

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish áel (“fleshfork; trident”).

Noun

adhal m (genitive singular adhail, nominative plural adhail)

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
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with 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

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 áel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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