úall
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ouxslā, from *ouxselos (“high”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [uːa̯l͈]
Noun
úall f (genitive úaille, no plural)
- vanity, pride
- 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. 10b27
- A ḟius sin immurgu ba maith són, act ní bed úall and. Atá són and trá et ní béo de.
- Knowledge of that, however, that would be good, provided there would be no pride in it. That [pride] is in it, then, and it [knowledge] is not alive from it.
- 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. 10b27
Declension
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | úallL | — | — |
| Vocative | úallL | — | — |
| Accusative | úaillN | — | — |
| Genitive | úailleH | — | — |
| Dative | úaillL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: uaill
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| úall | unchanged | n-úall |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 úall, úaill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language