irlam
See also: Irlam
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- airlam, aurlam, erlam
Etymology
From ar- + fo- + lám.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈœrl͈əṽ/
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. 22c10
- 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.
- 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. 22c10
Inflection
| 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 | ||
| Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative | ||
Descendants
- Middle Irish: urlam
- Irish: urlamh
- Scottish Gaelic: ùr-làimh
- Manx: aarloo
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| irlam | unchanged | n-irlam |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “airlam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 497–68