núall

Old Irish

Etymology

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): /n͈uːa̯l͈/

Noun

núall n or m (genitive núaill)

  1. 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!
  2. 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

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

  • Irish: nuall

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
also nnúall after a proclitic
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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