teilm

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *telmis.

Noun

teilm f (genitive telma)

sling
Synonym: táball

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	teilm	teilm^L	telmai^H
vocative	teilm	teilm^L	telmai^H
accusative	teilm^N	teilm^L	telmai^H
genitive	telmo^H, telma^H	telmo^H, telma^H	telmae^N
dative	teilm^L	telmaib	telmaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

Middle Irish: tailm

Mutation

Mutation of *teilm*
radical	lenition	nasalization
teilm	theilm	teilm pronounced with /dʲ-/

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), “tailm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language