Etáil

See also: e-tail

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Ītalia.

Proper noun

Etáil f

Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	Etáil^L	—	—
vocative	Etáil^L	—	—
accusative	Étail^N	—	—
genitive	Étale^H	—	—
dative	Étail^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: An Iodáil
Manx: Yn Iddaal
Scottish Gaelic: An Eadailt

Mutation

Mutation of *Etáil*
radical	lenition	nasalization
Etáil (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	Etáil	n-Etáil

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Etáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language