From Old Irish étáil (“gain, profit, wealth”).[1] Compare Scottish Gaelic eudail.
éadáil f (genitive singular éadála, nominative plural éadálacha)
- acquisition
- profit
- wealth
- spoils (of war, etc.)
- (nautical) salvage
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| éadáil
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n-éadáil
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héadáil
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 91
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33
