The original meaning was 'sundial' and/or 'clock dial'; from Middle English diall, from Middle French dyal, from Latin diālis (“daily, concerning the day”), because of its use in telling the time of day, from Latin diēs (“day”). Compare Spanish dial and día (“day”).
dial (plural dials)
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dial (third-person singular simple present dials, present participle (US) dialing or dialling, simple past and past participle (US) dialed or dialled)
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dial m (plural diales)
From Middle Welsh dial, from Old Welsh digal, from Proto-Brythonic *diɣal, from Proto-Celtic *dī-galā. Cognate with Cornish dial, Breton dial and Old Irish dígal and its modern derivatives.
dial m (plural dialau or dialon)
dial (first-person singular present dialaf)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | dialaf | dieli | dial, diala | dialwn | dielwch, dialwch | dialant | dielir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
dialwn | dialit | dialai | dialem | dialech | dialent | dielid | |
preterite | dielais | dielaist | dialodd | dialasom | dialasoch | dialasant | dialwyd | |
pluperfect | dialaswn | dialasit | dialasai | dialasem | dialasech | dialasent | dialasid, dialesid | |
present subjunctive | dialwyf | dielych | dialo | dialom | dialoch | dialont | dialer | |
imperative | — | dial, diala | dialed | dialwn | dielwch, dialwch | dialent | dialer | |
verbal noun | dial | |||||||
verbal adjectives | dialedig dialadwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | diala i, dialaf i | diali di | dialith o/e/hi, dialiff e/hi | dialwn ni | dialwch chi | dialan nhw |
conditional | dialwn i, dialswn i | dialet ti, dialset ti | dialai fo/fe/hi, dialsai fo/fe/hi | dialen ni, dialsen ni | dialech chi, dialsech chi | dialen nhw, dialsen nhw |
preterite | dialais i, diales i | dialaist ti, dialest ti | dialodd o/e/hi | dialon ni | dialoch chi | dialon nhw |
imperative | — | diala | — | — | dialwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
dial | ddial | nial | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |