atall

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See also: at all, átall, and átáll

English

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Etymology

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Contraction of at all.

Adverb

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atall (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete or Ireland) In any degree; at all.
    • 1576, John Foxe, Contemporary Biographies of Archbishop Cranmer[1], Camden Soc.:
      ...he did banquett hym, so that after diner there was conference of both thair armes togethers in divers poyntes nothing atall discrepaunte.
    • 1858, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:
      What business have you to come here? Go long wid ye — sure I don't want yer atall atall.
    • 1891, The Railroad Trainman[2], The Brotherhood, pages 390–:
      ...if i had done as i should of done i would not tuched the list atall you had no right to send the list where you did and the journals to me that is where I find fault i could do the dirty work someone else do the other is that using me right if it is then i will give in you had no right to send the journals to me atall...

Usage notes

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  • In Irish dialect, common as an intensifier in the form "atall, atall", or occasionally "atallatall".

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Deverbal from atallar.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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atall m (plural atalls)

  1. shortcut
    Synonym: drecera
  2. a temporary dam or shutoff to divert the flow of a liquid for the purposes of construction or installation

Further reading

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Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English atoll, from Portuguese atol, from Dhivehi އަތޮޅު (atoḷu).

Noun

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atall m (genitive singular ataill, nominative plural ataill)

  1. atoll

Declension

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Mutation

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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atall (masculine and feminine atall, neuter atalt, definite singular and plural atalle)

  1. (pre-1917) alternative form of atal

Anagrams

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *atalaz, whence also Old English atol.

Adjective

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atall

  1. fierce
  2. hideous, loathsome

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Norwegian Nynorsk: atal

References

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  • atall”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press