nél
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Welsh niwl; a Celtic loanword either from Vulgar Latin *nībulus, a modification of Latin nūbilus (“cloudy”), or from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz (“cloud, mist”). It cannot come from a Proto-Celtic form with *-bl-, as this cluster remained in Old Irish (e.g. mebul (“shame”) from *meblā).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nél m (genitive niúil, nominative plural niúil)
Inflection edit
Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | nél | nélL | niúilL |
Vocative | niúil | nélL | níuluH |
Accusative | nélN | nélL | níuluH |
Genitive | niúilL | nél | nélN |
Dative | níulL | nélaib | nélaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 79
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “nél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language