nuall

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish núall, from 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

• IPA^(key): /n̪ˠuəl̪ˠ/

Noun

nuall m (genitive singular nuaill) (literary)

1. a loud noise
2. a cry of joy

Declension

Declension of nuall

First declension

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

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an nuall Genitive an nuaill Dative leis an nuall don nuall

Further reading

• “nuall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 núall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “nuall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 522
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*now-slo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 292
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nuall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Noun

nuall n or m

1. Alternative spelling of núall

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
nuall also nnuall after a proclitic	nuall pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.