núall
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *nowslom (“a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *newH- (“to cry, roar”) (compare Sanskrit नवते (návate, “to roar”) and Tocharian B nu- (“to roar”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnúall n or m (genitive núaill)
- a loud noise
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Ep. 405; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
- Ar écnairc ind ríg-sa fris·n-agar a nnúall-sa, fa·rith asint sním-sa, in pauperán trúag-sa!
- For the sake of the king to whom this cry was made, help him out of this sadness, this wretched pauper!
- a cry of joy
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51c9
- is in núall do·ngniat hó ru·maith for a náimtea remib
- it is the cry that they make when their enemies are defeated by them
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51c9
Declension
editNeuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | núallN | núallN | núallL, núalla |
Vocative | núallN | núallN | núallL, núalla |
Accusative | núallN | núallN | núallL, núalla |
Genitive | núaillL | núall | núallN |
Dative | núallL | núallaib | núallaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | núall | núallL | núaillL |
Vocative | núaill | núallL | núalluH |
Accusative | núallN | núallL | núalluH |
Genitive | núaillL | núall | núallN |
Dative | núallL | núallaib | núallaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
|
Descendants
edit- Irish: nuall
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
núall also nnúall after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
núall pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 núall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*now-slo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 292
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