Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From either to- +‎ uss- or to- +‎ fo- + Proto-Celtic *-liyom.

Noun edit

tólae n

  1. flood
    • 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. 03b13
      .i. acht intan mbis tolae flechuid indib.
      i.e. except when there is a flood of rain in them.

Inflection edit

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tólaeN tólaeL tólaeL
Vocative tólaeN tólaeL tólaeL
Accusative tólaeN tólaeL tólaeL
Genitive tólaiL tólaeL tólaeN
Dative tóluL tólaib tólaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants edit

  • Middle Irish: tóla

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tólae thólae tólae
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit