atall
English
Etymology
Contraction of at all.
Adverb
atall (not comparable)
- (obsolete or Ireland) In any degree; at all.
- 1858, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:
- What business have you to come here? Go long wid ye — sure I don't want yer atall atall.
- 1891, The Railroad Trainman, The Brotherhood, pages 390–:
- ...if i had done as i should of done i would not tuched the list atall you had no right to send the list where you did and the journals to me that is where I find fault i could do the dirty work someone else do the other is that using me right if it is then i will give in you had no right to send the journals to me atall...
Usage notes
- In Irish dialect, common as an intensifier in the form "atall, atall", or occasionally "atallatall".
Catalan
Etymology
Deverbal from atallar.
Noun
atall m (plural atalls)
Further reading
- “atall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English atoll, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu), possibly from Prakrit *𑀲𑀁𑀢𑀻𑀞 (*saṃtīṭha), from Sanskrit *संतीर्थ (saṃtīrtha, “level ford”).
Declension
Declension of atall
First declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
atall | n-atall | hatall | t-atall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “atall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “atoll” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “atall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
atall (masculine and feminine atall, neuter atalt, definite singular and plural atalle)
- (pre-1917) alternative form of atal
Anagrams
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *atalaz, whence also Old English atol.
Declension
Strong declension of atall
Descendants
- Norwegian Nynorsk: atal
References
- “atall”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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