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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)
- a loud noise
- a cry of joy
Declension
Further reading
- “nuall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 núall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “nuall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 522
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*now-slo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 292
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nuall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old Irish
Noun
nuall n or m
- Alternative spelling of núall
Mutation
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Lenition |
Nasalization
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nuall
also nnuall after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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nuall
pronounced with /n(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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