aileach

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ailech, collective of ail (“boulder, rock”).

Noun

aileach m (genitive singular ailigh)

1. (literary) rocky place, rock

Declension

Declension of aileach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aileach vocative a ailigh genitive ailigh dative aileach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-aileach genitive an ailigh dative leis an aileach don aileach

Etymology 2

Noun

aileach f sg

1. genitive singular of ail (“stone, rock”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aileach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aileach	n-aileach	haileach	not applicable

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) “aileach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ailech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language