úasal

See also: uasal and Uasal

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-. Cognate with Welsh uchel, Old Breton uchel (Breton uhel), and with Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi, “on high, aloft”) and ὑψηλός (hupsēlós, “high, lofty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːa̯sal/

Adjective

úasal (comparative úaisliu, superlative uaislem)

1. high
2. lofty, high-born
3. noble, gallant, genteel

Inflection

Note: declined as an i-stem in the plural.

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	úasal	úasal	úasal
Vocative	úasail* úasal**
Accusative	úasal	úasail
Genitive	úasail	úaisle	úasail
Dative	úasal	úasail	úasal
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	úaisli	úaisli
Vocative	úaisli úaisli†
Accusative	úaisli úaisli†
Genitive	úasal
Dative	úaislib
Notes	*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

• úaisle

Related terms

• úachtar
• úas

Descendants

• Irish: uasal
• Manx: ooasle
• Scottish Gaelic: uasal

Noun

úasal ? (nominative plural uaisle)

1. lofty place
2. noble

Inflection

Unknown gender i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	úasal	úasalL	úaisliH
Vocative	úasal	úasalL	úaisliH
Accusative	úasalN	úasalL	úaisliH
Genitive	úasloH, úaslaH	úasloH, úaslaH	úaisleN
Dative	úasalL	úaislib	úaislib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: uasal
• Scottish Gaelic: uasal

Mutation

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

Further reading

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