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Webster 1913 Edition

Alt

Adj.

Noun.

[See

Alto

(Mus.)

The higher part of the scale. See

Alto

To be in alt

to be in an exalted state of mind.

Webster 1828 Edition

Alt

ALT

or AL'TO,

Adj.

[L. altus, high; Heb. upper, high.]

In music a term applied to high notes in the scale. In sculpture, alto-relievo, high relief, is when the figures project half or more, without being entirely detached from the ground.

Definition 2024

ált

See also: alt, atl, Alt, alt-, Alt., and ált.

Irish

Noun

ált m

Alternative form of ailt ‎(“steep-sided glen; ravine”)
Alternative form of aill ‎(“cliff, precipice”)

Mutation

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

References

"ált" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.