àlainn

See also: alainn and álainn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish álaind (“lovely, fine, splendid”); *ad-lainn; See loinn. Stokes prefers referring it to áil (“pleasant”), *pagli-, English fair, root pag. But ra-laind (“pleasant”), *ad-pland (Holden).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [aːɫ̪ɪɲ], /aːɫ̪ɪɲ/

Adjective

àlainn (comparative àilne)

beautiful, fair, lovely.

'S àlainn an gille bàn sin ann...! ― Beautiful is that flaxen-haired lad over there...!

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
àlainn	n-àlainn	h-àlainn	t-àlainn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Alexander MacBain, Eneas Mackay, 1911

“álaind” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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