altram

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish altram, an older verbal noun of ailid (“nourishes; rears, fosters”) (compare oiliúint f).

Noun

altram m (genitive singular altrama)

1. fosterage

Declension

Declension of altram (third declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative altram vocative a altram genitive altrama dative altram forms with the definite article singular nominative an t-altram genitive an altrama dative leis an altram don altram

Derived terms

• altramacht f (“fosterage”)
• altramaí m (“fosterer, foster-parent”)
• altramaigh (“foster”, verb)
• altramas m (“fosterage”)
• altramú m (“fosterage”)
• athair altrama m (“foster-father”)
• bean altrama f (“wet nurse”)
• craobh altrama f (“stock”)
• leanbh altrama m (“foster-child”)
• mac altrama m (“foster-son”)
• máthair altrama f (“foster-mother”)

See also

• buime f (“foster-mother, nurse”)
• comhalta m (“foster-brother, foster-sister”)
• dalta m (“foster-child”)
• daltán m (“(little) foster-child; young pupil”)
• máithrigh (“mother, bear; foster”, verb)
• oide m (“foster-father”)
• oil (“nourish, rear, foster; train, educate”, verb)
• oiliúint f (“nurture, upbringing, fostering care”)
• oiliúnach (“nurturing, fostering”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of altram

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
altram	n-altram	haltram	t-altram

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

References

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