nuall

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish núall, 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

Noun

nuall m (genitive singular nuaill) (literary)

  1. a loud noise
  2. a cry of joy

Declension

Declension of nuall (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative nuall
vocative a nuaill
genitive nuaill
dative nuall
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an nuall
genitive an nuaill
dative leis an nuall
don nuall

Further reading

Old Irish

Noun

nuall n or m

  1. Alternative spelling of núall

Mutation

Mutation of nuall
radical lenition nasalization
nuall
also nnuall after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		nuall
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged

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

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