accomol

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• accomal
• accomul
• accumul
• acomol
• acomul
• occomol
• ocomul

Etymology

From ad- +‎ com- +‎ -l. The vowel in between com- and the root is epenthetic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈakuβ̃ul]

Noun

accomol n (genitive accomuil)

1. verbal noun of ad·comla
   • 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. 197^b17:

     cen acomol naich aili do air dia·n-accomaltar pronomen naill do ɔétet som iarum do ṡuidiu

     without joining any other to it, for if another pronoun be joined to it, it is in subjection to it

Inflection

Neuter o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	accomolN, accomulN	—	—
vocative	accomolN, accomulN	—	—
accusative	accomolN, accomulN	—	—
genitive	accomuilL, accomoilL	—	—
dative	accomolL, accomulL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

• doccumail (“difficulty, hardship”)
• socamail (“comfort, ease”)

Descendants

• Irish: acomhal

Mutation

Mutation of accomol

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

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

References

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