alt – Irish noun declension

Noun: alt

Gender: Masc

Forms without Article

Singular Nominative	alt
Singular Genitive	ailt
Plural Nominative	ailt
Plural Genitive	alt

Forms with Article

Singular Nominative	an t-alt
Singular Genitive	an ailt
Plural Nominative	na hailt
Plural Genitive	na n-alt

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like alt

alt, aralt, folt, molt, príomhalt,

Etymology

From Old Irish alt (“joint, articulation”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸaltu- (“joint”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌰𐌽 (falþan, “to fold”) and Ancient Greek πέπλος (péplos, “woven cloth”). The sense “article” is a semantic loan from Latin articulus, itself a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron). See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'πέπλος'.

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