nuall

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish núall, from Proto-Celtic *nowslom (“a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *newH- (“to cry, roar”) (compare Sanskrit नवते (návate, “to roar”) and Tocharian B nu- (“to roar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n̪ˠuəl̪ˠ/

Noun

nuall m (genitive singular nuaill) (literary)

1. a loud noise
2. a cry of joy

Declension

Declension of nuall (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative nuall vocative a nuaill genitive nuaill dative nuall forms with the definite article case singular nominative an nuall genitive an nuaill dative leis an nuall don nuall

Further reading

• “nuall”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 núall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “nuall”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 522
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*now-slo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 292
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “nuall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Noun

nuall n or m

1. Alternative spelling of núall

Mutation

Mutation of nuall

radical	lenition	nasalization
nuall also nnuall after a proclitic ending in a vowel	nuall pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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