altram

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish altram, an older verbal noun of ailid (“nourishes; rears, fosters”) (compare oiliúint f).

Noun

altram m (genitive singular altrama)

  1. fosterage

Declension
Declension of altram

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative altram
Vocative a altram
Genitive altrama
Dative altram

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an t-altram
Genitive an altrama
Dative leis an altram

don altram

Derived terms
  • altramacht f (“fosterage”)
  • altramaí m (“fosterer, foster-parent”)
  • altramaigh (“foster”, verb)
  • altramas m (“fosterage”)
  • altramú m (“fosterage”)
  • athair altrama m (“foster-father”)
  • bean altrama f (“wet nurse”)
  • craobh altrama f (“stock”)
  • leanbh altrama m (“foster-child”)
  • mac altrama m (“foster-son”)
  • máthair altrama f (“foster-mother”)

See also
  • buime f (“foster-mother, nurse”)
  • comhalta m (“foster-brother, foster-sister”)
  • dalta m (“foster-child”)
  • daltán m (“(little) foster-child; young pupil”)
  • máithrigh (“mother, bear; foster”, verb)
  • oide m (“foster-father”)
  • oil (“nourish, rear, foster; train, educate”, verb)
  • oiliúint f (“nurture, upbringing, fostering care”)
  • oiliúnach (“nurturing, fostering”, adjective)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
altram n-altram haltram t-altram
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • altramm

Etymology

From *altar m (“fosterage”), which occurs in compounds such as míaltar (“bad fosterage”), from Proto-Celtic *altrom.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈal͈tram]

Noun

altram m (genitive altrama)

  1. verbal noun of ailid

Inflection
Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative altram altramL altramae
Vocative altram altramL altramu
Accusative altramN altramL altramu
Genitive altramoH, altramaH altramo, altrama altramaeN
Dative altramL altramaib altramaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: altram
  • Scottish Gaelic: altram

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
altram unchanged n-altram
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 731, page 452

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish altram, verbal noun of ailid (“nourishes; rears, fosters”).

Noun

altram m (genitive singular altraim)

  1. verbal noun of altraim
  2. fostering, nourishing, nursing, rearing

Derived terms
  • bràthair-altraim m (“foster-brother”)
  • leanabh-altraim m (“foster-child, nursling”)
  • màthair-altraim f (“nurse”)
  • oide-altraim m (“foster-father”)
  • seòmar-altraim m (“nursery”)
  • taigh-altraim m (“nursing home”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
altramn-altramh-altramt-altram
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “altram”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “altram(m)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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