conamail

Old Irish

Etymology

cú, con (“hound”) +‎ -amail

Adjective

conamail

1. houndlike
2. fierce, valiant (of warrior)

Descendants

• Irish: conúil (“doglike, doggish”)

Mutation

Mutation of conamail

radical	lenition	nasalization
conamail	chonamail	conamail pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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