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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airle (“counsel”).[1]

Noun

airle f (genitive singular airle)

  1. (literary) (act of) consulting, counselling; counsel, advice

Declension

Declension of airle (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative airle
vocative a airle
genitive airle
dative airle
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an airle
genitive na hairle
dative leis an airle
don airle

Mutation

Mutated forms of airle
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
airle n-airle hairle not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-lay-ā.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

airle f

  1. counsel, advice
  2. deliberation, consideration
  3. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. management
      • 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. 31c7
        arna érbarthar, “Ó chretsit, nín·tá airli ar mban”
        lest it be said, “Since they believed, we do not have management (?) of our women”
    2. treatment
    3. settling
    4. provision

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative airleL airliL airli
Vocative airleL airliL airli
Accusative airliN airliL airli
Genitive airle airleL airleN
Dative airliL airlib airlib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: airle
  • Scottish Gaelic: airle

Mutation

Mutation of airle
radical lenition nasalization
airle
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-airle

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*la-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

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