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

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	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