fíal

See also: fial

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *wēlos (“modest”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“rotate turn”). Cognate with Welsh gŵyl (“modest, generous, kind”).[1][2]

fíal (equative félithir, comparative féliu)

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fíal	fíal	fíal
Vocative	féil* fíal**	fíal
Accusative	fíal	féil
Genitive	féil	féile	féil
Dative	fíal	féil	fíal
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	féil	fíala
Vocative	fíalu fíala†
Accusative	fíalu fíala†
Genitive	fíal
Dative	fíalaib
Notes	modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative *modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

From Latin vēlum (“curtain, veil”).

fíal n

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fíal^N	fíal^N	fíal^L, fíala
Vocative	fíal^N	fíal^N	fíal^L, fíala
Accusative	fíal^N	fíal^N	fíal^L, fíala
Genitive	féil^L	fíal	fíal^N
Dative	fíal^L	fíalaib	fíalaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fíal	ḟíal	fíal pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Falileyev, Alexander, Etymological Glossary of Old Welsh, Walter de Gruyter, 2000, p. 68.
Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 412

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fíal "noble"”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 fíal "veil"”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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