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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *meblā (compare Welsh mefl), from Proto-Indo-European *mebʰ- (“to blame”); compare Ancient Greek μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “to blame”) and Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌼𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bimampjan, “to mock”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mebul f (genitive meblae, no plural)
- shame
- 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. 29d27
Ní mebul lemm cía fa·dam.- I am not ashamed that I endure it.
- (literally, “There is no shame with me…”)
Declension
| Feminine ā-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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mebulL
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| Vocative
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mebulL
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| Accusative
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mebuilN
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| Genitive
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meblaeH
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| Dative
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mebuilL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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mebul
also mmebul after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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mebul
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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