noíll

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nowanluxs, a consonant-stem derivation from *nowan (“nine”) +‎ *lug- (“oath”),[1] whence also *lugyom (Old Irish lugae (“oath”)).

Noun

noíll f (genitive noílleg, nominative plural noíllig)

  1. (law) oath

Inflection

Feminine g-stem
singular dual plural
nominative noíll noílligL noíllig
vocative noíll noílligL noíllega
accusative noílligN noílligL noíllega
genitive noílleg noílleg noíllegN
dative noílligL noíllegaib noíllegaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of noíll
radical lenition nasalization
noíll
also nnoíll in h-prothesis environments		 noíll
pronounced with /n-/		 noíll
also nnoíll

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

References

  1. ^ Stifter, David (2011) “Lack of Syncope and other nichtlautgesetzlich Vowel Developments in OIr. Consonant-Stem Nouns. Animacy Rearing its Head in Morphology?”, in Thomas Krisch, Thomas Lindner, Michael Crombach, Stefan Niederreiter, editors, Indogermanistik und Linguistikim Dialog Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaftvom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 556–565

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