anacol
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *anextlom, from the stem *aneg-.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈanəkəl/
Noun
anacol n (genitive anacuil)
- verbal noun of aingid: protection
- 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. 23a6
- .i. imb anacol dom fa nac
- i.e. whether it be protection to me or not
- 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. 23a6
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | anacolN | — | — |
| vocative | anacolN | — | — |
| accusative | anacolN | — | — |
| genitive | anacuilL | — | — |
| dative | anacolL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| anacol (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
anacol | n-anacol |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 180, page 113; reprinted 2017
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*aneg-tlo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 36
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anacul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language