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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

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” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
  • “1 núall” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “nuall” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, 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
  • "nuall" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old Irish

Noun

nuall n or m

  1. Alternative spelling of núall

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
nuall
also nnuall after a proclitic		 nuall
pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/		 nuall
also nnuall after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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