irlam

Alternative forms

airlam, aurlam, erlam

Etymology

From air- +‎ fo- +‎ lám.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈœr.l̪əβ̃/
- (Blasse) [ˈœr.l̪aβ̃]
- (Griffith) [ˈœr.l̪əβ̃]

Adjective

irlam (equative erlaimidir, comparative irlamu)

ready
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^c10
  Is bés trá dosom anísiu cosc inna mban i tossug et a tabairt fo chumacte a feir, armbat irlamu de ind ḟir fo chumacte Dǽi, co·mbí íarum coscitir ind ḟir et do·airbertar fo réir Dǽ.
  This, then, is a custom of his, to correct the wives at first and to bring them under the power of their husbands, so that the husbands may be the readier under God’s power, so that afterwards the husbands are corrected and bowed down in subjection to God.

Inflection

More information singular, masculine ...

o/ā-stem
singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	irlam	irlam	irlam
vocative	irlaim* irlam**
accusative	irlam	irlaim
genitive	irlaim	irlaime	irlaim
dative	irlum	irlaim	irlum
plural	masculine	feminine/neuter
nominative	irlaim	irlama
vocative	irlamu irlama†
accusative	irlamu irlama†
genitive	irlam
dative	irlamaib

*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Descendants

Middle Irish: urlam
- Irish: urlamh
- Scottish Gaelic: ùr-làimh
- Manx: aarloo

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutation of *irlam*
radical	lenition	nasalization
irlam (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	irlam	n-irlam

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

Old Irish