Etáil

See also: e-tail

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Ītalia.

Proper noun

Etáil f

1. Italy (a country in Southern Europe)

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	EtáilL	—	—
vocative	EtáilL	—	—
accusative	ÉtailN	—	—
genitive	ÉtaleH	—	—
dative	ÉtailL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• Irish: An Iodáil
• Manx: Yn Iddaal
• Scottish Gaelic: An Eadailt

Mutation

Mutation of Etáil

radical	lenition	nasalization
Etáil (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	nEtáil

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