airle

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish airle (counsel).[1]

Noun

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airle f (genitive singular airle)

  1. (literary) (act of) consulting, counselling; counsel, advice

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
airle n-airle hairle not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-lay-ā.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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airle f

  1. counsel, advice
  2. deliberation, consideration
  3. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. management
      • 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. 31c7
        arna érbarthar, “Ó chretsit, nín·tá airli ar mban”
        lest it be said, “Since they believed, we do not have management (?) of our women”
    2. treatment
    3. settling
    4. provision

Declension

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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative airleL airliL airli
Vocative airleL airliL airli
Accusative airliN airliL airli
Genitive airle airleL airleN
Dative airliL airlib airlib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: airle
  • Scottish Gaelic: airle

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
airle
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-airle
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*la-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

Further reading

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