dretel

Old Irish

Etymology

Comparable to Middle Welsh drythyll (“lively”); Proto-Celtic *trettillos may be mechanically reconstructible from this.

Noun

dretel m (genitive unattested, nominative plural dretli)

1. darling, favorite

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	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:

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

Descendants

• Middle Irish: dretel, tretel, treittell
  • Irish: treiteall

Mutation

Mutation of dretel

radical	lenition	nasalization
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

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