umal

See also: -umal

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: u‧mal

Noun

umal

  1. a piece of land depleted of minerals due to agriculture

Verb

umal

  1. to cause the soil to become barren or infertile

Adjective

umal

  1. (of soil) not fertile; infertile; not producing vegetation; barren

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

umal

  1. mute person; someone who does not speak at all or has difficulty speaking

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humilis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuβ̃al]

Adjective

umal

  1. humble; obedient
  2. obedient, submissive, subject [with do ‘to’]
  3. ready, willing [with le ‘to’]

Inflection

o/ā-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative umal umal umal
vocative umail*
umal**
accusative umal umail
genitive umail uimle umail
dative umal umail umal
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative umail umla
vocative umlu
umla†
accusative umlu
umla†
genitive umal
dative uimlib

*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: umhal
  • Scottish Gaelic: ùmhal

Noun

umal m

  1. humble, obedient person

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative umal umalL umailL
vocative umail umalL umluH
accusative umalN umalL umluH
genitive umailL umal umalN
dative umalL uimlib uimlib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

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

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

Further reading

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈu.mal/
  • Rhymes: -umal
  • Syllabification: u‧mal

Verb

umal

  1. second-person singular imperative of umalić
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