adhal

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish áel (“fleshfork; trident”), from Old Irish áel (“meat fork”).

Noun

adhal m (genitive singular adhail, nominative plural adhail)

1. fork; trident

Declension

Declension of adhal (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative adhal adhail vocative a adhail a adhala genitive adhail adhal dative adhal adhail forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-adhal na hadhail genitive an adhail na n-adhal dative leis an adhal don adhal leis na hadhail

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhal

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhal	n-adhal	hadhal	t-adhal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “adhal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 áel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language