Níall
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of disputed origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neyd-los, from *h₃neyd- (“to revile”) + *-lós (agentive noun suffix).
Proper noun
[edit]Níall m (genitive Néill)
- a male given name
Inflection
[edit]Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | Níall | — | — |
Vocative | Néill | — | — |
Accusative | NíallN | — | — |
Genitive | NéillL | — | — |
Dative | NíallL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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Níall also Nníall after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
Níall pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Níall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃neyd-
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish proper nouns
- Old Irish masculine nouns
- Old Irish given names
- Old Irish male given names
- Old Irish masculine o-stem nouns
- Old Irish uncountable nouns