noíll
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *nowanluxs, a consonant-stem derivation from *nowan (“nine”) + *lug- (“oath”),[1] whence also *lugyom (Old Irish lugae (“oath”)).
Noun edit
noíll f (genitive noílleg, nominative plural noíllig)
Inflection edit
| Feminine g-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | noíll | noílligL | noíllig |
| Vocative | noíll | noílligL | noíllega |
| Accusative | noílligN | noílligL | noíllega |
| Genitive | noílleg | noílleg | noíllegN |
| Dative | noílligL | noíllegaib | noíllegaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| noíll also nnoíll after a proclitic |
noíll pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Stifter, David (2011) “Lack of Syncope and other nichtlautgesetzlich Vowel Developments in OIr. Consonant-Stem Nouns. Animacy Rearing its Head in Morphology?”, in Thomas Krisch, Thomas Lindner, Michael Crombach, Stefan Niederreiter, editors, Indogermanistik und Linguistikim Dialog Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaftvom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 556–565
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “noíl, noíll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language