aball

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *abalnā.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaval͈/

Noun

aball f (genitive abla)

  1. apple tree
    • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 61b5:
      aball glosses malus (“apple tree”)

Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
aball unchanged n-aball
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • “aball” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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