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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alltarach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “alltarach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language