airle

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airle (“counsel”).

Noun

airle f (genitive singular airle)

1. (literary) (act of) consulting, counselling; counsel, advice

Declension

Declension of airle

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative airle Vocative a airle Genitive airle Dative airle

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an airle Genitive na hairle Dative leis an airle don airle

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airle	n-airle	hairle	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airle”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-lay-ā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈar͈ʲl͈ʲe]

Noun

airle f

1. counsel, advice
2. deliberation, consideration
3. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. management
      • 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. 31^c7

        arna érbarthar, “Ó chretsit, nín·tá airli ar mban”

        lest it be said, “Since they believed, we do not have management (?) of our women”

   2. treatment
   3. settling
   4. provision

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	airleL	airliL	airli
Vocative	airleL	airliL	airli
Accusative	airliN	airliL	airli
Genitive	airle	airleL	airleN
Dative	airliL	airlib	airlib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• comairle

Descendants

• Irish: airle
• Scottish Gaelic: airle

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language