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)

  1. 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.

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
† not when substantivized

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: urlam
    • Irish: urlamh
    • Scottish Gaelic: ùr-làimh
    • Manx: aarloo

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
irlam unchanged n-irlam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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