allta

See also: állta

Irish

Alternative forms

• alla
• allaidh

Etymology

From Old Irish allaid, allta (“wild, undomesticated”) (compare Scottish Gaelic allaidh).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈaul̪ˠt̪ˠə/

Adjective

allta

1. wild

Derived terms

• alltacht
• alltán
• alltathír
• cú allta
• madra alla
• madra allta
• torc allta

Mutation

Mutated forms of allta

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
allta	n-allta	hallta	not applicable

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), “allta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “allaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language