máel

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See also: mael, Mael, Maël, Máel, mæl, and mäl

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mailos; cognate with Welsh moel.

Pronunciation

Adjective

máel

  1. bald, bare, shaved, shorn, tonsured
    1. (pre-Christian) as of a slave.
    2. (after the introduction of Christianity to Ireland) as of someone who is devoted (to God or to a given saint)
  2. hornless (of cattle)
  3. blunt, flattened, obtuse, pointless
  4. bare, exposed, defenceless (of places)

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative máel máel máel
Vocative maíl*
máel**
Accusative máel maíl
Genitive maíl maíle maíl
Dative máel maíl máel
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative maíl máela
Vocative máelu
máela†
Accusative máelu
máela†
Genitive máel
Dative máelaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Noun

máel f (genitive maíle, nominative plural máela)

  1. A head or shaved head.
  2. bare or blunt object.
  3. A rounded or convex surface; a flat-topped hillock.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative máelL maílL máelaH
Vocative máelL maílL máelaH
Accusative maílN maílL máelaH
Genitive maíleH máelL máelN
Dative maílL máelaib máelaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: maol, maoil
  • Manx: meayl
  • Scottish Gaelic: maol

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
máel
also mmáel after a proclitic 		máel
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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