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athléim

athléim

Irish

Alternative forms

  • aithléim (superseded)

Verb

athléim (present analytic athléimeann, future analytic athléimfidh, verbal noun athléim, past participle athléimthe)

  1. to rebound (bound or spring back from a force)
  2. to jump back
Conjugation

Noun

athléim f (genitive singular athléime, nominative plural athléimeanna)

  1. rebound (recoil of an object bouncing off another)
  2. a jump back
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 23:
      də lēm n̥ fȧr əŕ xlai agəs hic n̥ klai; hug šē alēm agəs hānig šē sl̄ān ō ʒørtū.
      conventional orthography: Do léim an fear ar chlaí agus thit an claí; thug sé athléim agus tháinig sé slán ó ghortú.
      The man jumped on a stone wall and the stone wall fell; he made a jump back and came away safe from injury.
  3. verbal noun of athléim
Declension

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Alternative forms

  • aithléighim (superseded)
  • athléighim (superseded)

Verb

athléim

  1. first-person singular present indicative of athléigh
  2. first-person singular imperative of athléigh

Mutation

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

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