úasal

See also: uasal and Uasal

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-. Cognate with Welsh uchel, Old Breton uchel (Breton uhel), and with Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi, “on high, aloft”) and ὑψηλός (hupsēlós, “high, lofty”).

úasal (comparative úaisliu, superlative uaislem)

Note: declined as an i-stem in the plural.

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	úasal	úasal	úasal
Vocative	úasail* úasal**	úasal
Accusative	úasal	úasail
Genitive	úasail	úaisle	úasail
Dative	úasal	úasail	úasal
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	úaisli	úaisli
Vocative	úaisli úaisli†
Accusative	úaisli úaisli†
Genitive	úasal
Dative	úaislib
Notes	modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative *modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

úasal ? (nominative plural uaisle)

Unknown gender i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	úasal	úasal^L	úaisli^H
Vocative	úasal	úasal^L	úaisli^H
Accusative	úasal^N	úasal^L	úaisli^H
Genitive	úaslo^H, úasla^H	úaslo^H, úasla^H	úaisle^N
Dative	úasal^L	úaislib	úaislib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
úasal (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-úasal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.