selb

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *selwā. Cognate with Welsh elw.

Noun

selb f (nominative plural selba)

1. property
2. possession

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	selbL	seilbL	selbaH
vocative	selbL	seilbL	selbaH
accusative	seilbN	seilbL	selbaH
genitive	selbaeH	selbL	selbN
dative	seilbL	selbaib	selbaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

• Middle Irish: selb
  • Irish: seilbh
  • Scottish Gaelic: seilbh
  • Manx: shelloo

Mutation

Mutation of selb

radical	lenition	nasalization
selb	ṡelb	unchanged

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