Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *ouxslā, from *ouxselos (high).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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úall f (genitive úaille, no plural)

  1. 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.

Declension

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative úallL
Vocative úallL
Accusative úaillN
Genitive úailleH
Dative úaillL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: uaill

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
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.

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