nél

See also: nel, Nel, ńel, and -nél

Old Irish

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh niwl; a Celtic loanword either from Vulgar Latin *nībulus, a modification of Latin nūbilus (“cloudy”), or from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz (“cloud, mist”). It cannot come from a Proto-Celtic form with *-bl-, as this cluster remained in Old Irish (e.g. mebul (“shame”) from *meblā).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /n͈ʲeːl/

Noun

nél m (genitive niúil, nominative plural niúil)

  1. cloud

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative nél nélL niúilL
Vocative niúil nélL níuluH
Accusative nélN nélL níuluH
Genitive niúilL nél nélN
Dative níulL nélaib nélaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: néal
  • Manx: neeal, niaul
  • Scottish Gaelic: neul

References
  1. Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 79

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