alltarach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish alltarach (“further, outer, on the other side”), from alltar (“the next world, the hereafter; remote place”). By surface analysis, alltar (“the far country; the other world; remote place, hinterland”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

alltarach (genitive singular masculine alltaraigh, genitive singular feminine alltaraí, plural alltaracha, not comparable)

  1. beyond, on the far side

Declension

Declension of alltarach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative alltarach alltarach alltaracha
vocative alltaraigh alltaracha
genitive alltaraí alltaracha alltarach
dative alltarach alltarach;
alltaraigh (archaic) 		alltaracha
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

Mutation

Mutated forms of alltarach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
alltarach n-alltarach halltarach not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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