aball

Old Irish

aball f (genitive abla, nominative plural abla)

apple tree
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 61^b5:
  aball [translating malus]
  apple tree

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	aball^L	abaill^L	abla^H
Vocative	aball^L	abaill^L	abla^H
Accusative	abaill^N	abaill^L	abla^H
Genitive	abla^H	aball^L	aball^N
Dative	abaill^L	ablaib	ablaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *aball*
radical	lenition	nasalization
aball (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aball

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Stifter, David (2019 September 18) “An apple a day ...”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 124, number 1, pages 172–218

Related to aballu (“to perish”), from Proto-Celtic *balnīti (“to die”).

aball m (plural aballau or aballoedd)

Mutated forms of *aball*
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
aball	unchanged	unchanged	haball

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.