amal

See also: Amal and Åmål

French

Noun

amal m (uncountable)

  1. Amal (language)

Irish

Noun

amal m (genitive singular amail, nominative plural amail)

  1. Alternative form of gamal (“gomeral, lout, simpleton, fool”)

Declension
Declension of amal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative amal amail
Vocative a amail a amala
Genitive amail amal
Dative amal amail

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-amal na hamail
Genitive an amail na n-amal
Dative leis an amal

don amal

 leis na hamail

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
amal n-amal hamal t-amal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From unstressed form of samail.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaṽal/

Conjunction

amal (followed by indirect relative)

  1. as, like
  2. when, while

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:amal.

Descendants

Preposition

amal (with accusative, lenites)

  1. as, like

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:amal.

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading
  • “amail, amal” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Rudolf Thurneysen (1940) A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, §§ 168, 178, 826
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