mórálus

See also: moralus and morālus

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• mórólus

Etymology

From Latin mōrālis +‎ -us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːraːlus]

Note: This word is never written with acute accents in manuscripts. The long vowels are assumed on the basis of the Latin etymon mōrālis; however, the modern Irish cognates morálta, moráltach etc. have a short o, so it possible the o was already short in Old Irish. DIL standardizes the spelling as morálus while Strachan standardizes it as mórálus.

Noun

mórálus m (genitive mórálusa)

1. morality
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 14^d10

     Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís dint ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.

     It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mórálus	—	—
Vocative	mórálus	—	—
Accusative	mórálusN	—	—
Genitive	mórálusoH, mórálusaH	—	—
Dative	mórálusL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of mórálus

radical	lenition	nasalization
mórálus also mmórálus after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mórálus pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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