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Old Irish
Etymology
From either to- + uss- or to- + fo- + Proto-Celtic *-liyom.
Noun
tólae n
- flood
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 03b13
.i. acht intan mbis tolae flechuid indib.- i.e. except when there is a flood of rain in them.
Inflection
| Neuter io-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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tólaeN
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tólaeL
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tólaeL
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| Vocative
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tólaeN
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tólaeL
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tólaeL
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| Accusative
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tólaeN
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tólaeL
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tólaeL
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| Genitive
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tólaiL
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tólaeL
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tólaeN
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| Dative
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tóluL
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tólaib
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tólaib
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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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| tólae
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thólae
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tólae
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
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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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