rock, crag, cliff
→
echo
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Middle Irish | |
| Lexeme 1 | alla | |
| Lexeme 2 | mac alla | |
| Meaning 1 | cliff | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | echo | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | literally “son of a cliff”. Modern Irish Gaelic macalla 'echo'. Also Irish Gaelic allabhair, Old Irish allabair 'echo' sometimes explained as alla 'cliff' + labair 'speak' or ath- 're-, again' + labair 'speak', but these may be folk etymologies. |
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