adhal

adhal

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish adal, a variant of Old Irish áel (“fleshfork; trident”).

Noun

adhal m (genitive singular adhail, nominative plural adhail)

1. 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

• "adhal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “adal” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 áel” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.