nuall

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish núall,[1] 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”).[2]

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, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative nuall
vocative a nuaill
genitive nuaill
dative nuall
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an nuall
genitive an nuaill
dative leis an nuall
don nuall

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 núall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*now-slo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 292

Further reading

  • “nuall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “nuall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 522
  • 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

Mutation of nuall
radical lenition nasalization
nuall
also nnuall in h-prothesis environments		 nuall
pronounced with /n-/		 nuall
also nnuall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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