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anacol

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *anextlom, from the stem *aneg-.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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anacol n (genitive anacuil)

  1. verbal noun of aingid: protection
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23a6
      .i. imb anacol dom fa nac
      i.e. whether it be protection to me or not

Inflection

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Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative anacolN
Vocative anacolN
Accusative anacolN
Genitive anacuilL
Dative anacolL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: anacal

Mutation

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

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

References

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  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 180, page 113; reprinted 2017
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*aneg-tlo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 36

Further reading

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