adnacul

Old Irish

Etymology

From ad- +‎ anacol.

Noun

adnacul n (genitive adnacuil, nominative plural adnacla)

1. verbal noun of ad·anaig: burial
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 3^a15

     .i. in tain diagma-ni fo baithis, is cosmulius a adnacuil acus a báis dún-ni.

     i.e. when we undergo baptism, it is a similitude to us of His burial and His death.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 100^c23

     .i. co ad·anastais .i. níɔ robae nech ad·chotatæ dia n-adnacul.

     i.e. that they should be buried, i.e. there was not anyone who could be obtained to bury them.

2. grave
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 20^c26

     .i. amal da marb i n-adnacul, marb cechtar nathar di alailiu, ego et mundus.

     i.e. like two corpses in a grave, dead is each of us twain to the other, ego et mundus.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 69^a8

     .i. nicon foigebat ciniud sainemail dia nǽs ⁊ ni ɔdabia nem acht sír-buith i n-adnaclaib.

     i.e. they will not get a distinguished race after them, and they will not have heaven, but will be forever in graves.

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	adnaculN	adnaculN	adnaculL, adnacla
Vocative	adnaculN	adnaculN	adnaculL, adnacla
Accusative	adnaculN	adnaculN	adnaculL, adnacla
Genitive	adnacuilL	adnacul	adnaculN
Dative	adnaculL	adnaclaib	adnaclaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
adnacul	unchanged	n-adnacul
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adnacul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language