adella

Old Irish

Etymology

ad- + Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aðˈel͈a/

Verb

ad·ella (prototonic ·aidle, verbal noun adall)

1. to visit
2. to pass to

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adella.

Usage notes

In the sense ‘visit’, this verb is sometimes complemented by the preposition la (“with”) plus a pronoun referring back to the subject, with no discernible change in meaning, e.g. atdub·elliub lemm (“I will visit you”, literally “I will visit you with me”).

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.			ad·ella; ata·ella (with infixed pronoun da-)			ad·ellat
	prot.			·aidle
imperfect indicative	deut.			ad·ellad
	prot.			·aidled
preterite	deut.			ad·ell
	prot.
perfect	deut.			ad·rell			ad·ralsat
	prot.							·aidled
future	deut.	ad·elliub, ad·eilliub; atdub·elliub (with infixed pronoun dub-)
	prot.	·adliub		·aidlibe, ·aidliba, ·aidléba
conditional	deut.
	prot.							·aidlébthai
present subjunctive	deut.		ad·rella (ro-form)	ad·ella
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.		ro·adelta (ro-form)
	prot.		·adelta
imperative
verbal noun		adall
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• ad·aidlea
• do·aidlea

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aidlid

Mutation

Mutation of adella

radical	lenition	nasalization
ad·ella (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	ad·n-ella

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ad·ella”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language