úall

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ouxslā, from *ouxselos (“high”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [uːa̯l͈]

Noun

úall f (genitive úaille, no plural)

1. vanity, pride
   • 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. 10^b27

     A ḟius sin immurgu ba maith són, act ní bed úall and. Atá són and trá et ní béo de.

     Knowledge of that, however, that would be good, provided there would be no pride in it. That [pride] is in it, then, and it [knowledge] is not alive from it.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	úallL	—	—
Vocative	úallL	—	—
Accusative	úaillN	—	—
Genitive	úailleH	—	—
Dative	úaillL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: uaill

Mutation

Mutation of úall

radical	lenition	nasalization
úall (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-úall

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), “1 úall, úaill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language