dretel
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Comparable to Middle Welsh drythyll (“lively”); Proto-Celtic *trettillos may be mechanically reconstructible from this.
Noun
[edit]dretel m (genitive unattested, nominative plural dretli)
Inflection
[edit]Masculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | dretel | dretelL | dretliH |
Vocative | dretel | dretelL | dretliuH |
Accusative | dretelN | dretelL | dretliuH |
Genitive | dretleoH, dretleaH | dretleo, dretlea | dretleN |
Dative | dretelL | dretleaib | dretleaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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dretel | dretel pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndretel |
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), “drettel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language