adhall

From Old Irish adall (“visit, meeting”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈəiəl̪ˠ/

adhall m (genitive singular adhaill)

1. heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate) (used primarily of dogs)
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 4:

     ʒā ȷȧgəx aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš ə n-ām, vērət šī kuən əníš.

     conventional orthography:

     Dá dtagadh adhall ar an mbitch in am, bhéarfadh sí cuain anois.

     If the bitch had come into heat in time, she’d have a litter now.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 4:

     tā aiəl̄ əŕ ə mitš. tā n vitš fȳ aiəl̥̄.

     conventional orthography:

     Tá adhall ar an mbitch. / Tá an bhitch faoi adhall.

     The bitch is in heat.

• faoi adhall (“in heat, on heat”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “adhall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 adall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “aḋall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 4
• “adhall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Entries containing “adhall” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “adhall” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.