úall
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *ouxslā, from *ouxselos (“high”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editúall f (genitive úaille, no plural)
- vanity, pride
- 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. 10b27
- A ḟius sin immurgu ba maith són, act ní bed úall and. Atá són and trá et ní béo de.
- Knowledge of that, however, that would be good, provided there would be no pride in it. That [pride] is in it, then, and it [knowledge] is not alive from it.
- 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. 10b27
Declension
editFeminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | úallL | — | — |
Vocative | úallL | — | — |
Accusative | úaillN | — | — |
Genitive | úailleH | — | — |
Dative | úaillL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
edit- Irish: uaill
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
úall (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-úall |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úall, úaill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language