aelus

Irish

Etymology

From ae (“liver”) +‎ lus (“plant, herb”).

Noun

aelus m (genitive singular aelusa, nominative plural aelusanna)

1. liverwort

Declension

Declension of aelus (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aelus aelusanna vocative a aelus a aelusanna genitive aelusa aelusanna dative aelus aelusanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aelus na haelusanna genitive an aelusa na n-aelusanna dative leis an aelus don aelus leis na haelusanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of aelus

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aelus	n-aelus	haelus	t-aelus

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) “aelus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “liverwort”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aelus”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm