diall
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish díallaid (“turns (to or from), bends, reaches; stoops to, submits to; resembles, imitates; joins with, cleaves to”), díall, dell n or m (“swerving, turning aside; going astray, moral aberration; act of resembling; inclining to, taking part in, cleaving to; declension”), verbal noun of do·ella (“turns aside, deviates, bends; goes astray, errs, degenerates; turns to, takes to; turns on, assails; takes after, resembles; turns aside, deflects; declines (grammatically)”).
Verb edit
diall (present analytic diallann, future analytic diallfaidh, verbal noun diall, past participle diallta)
- (intransitive, with le, ar) incline (towards)
- (intransitive, with ó) decline, deviate (from)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Noun edit
diall m (genitive singular diallta)
- verbal noun of diall
- (with le) inclination (towards)
- (with ó) declension, deviation (from)
Declension edit
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
diall | dhiall | ndiall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “diall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “díallaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “díall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French dyal, from Latin diālis.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
diall
- A pointer on a dial (e.g. a clock hand or a compass point)
- (rare) A timekeeping instrument, method, or device:
Descendants edit
References edit
- “dīal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.
Palauan edit
Noun edit
diall
Derived terms edit
- chad er a diall (“sailor”)
References edit
- diall in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
- diall in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
- diall in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 78.