aball
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *aballā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ebl̥neh₂.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaval͈/
Noun
aball f (genitive abla, nominative plural abla)
- 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”)
- 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:
Inflection
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | aballL | abaillL | ablaH |
| Vocative | aballL | abaillL | ablaH |
| Accusative | abaillN | abaillL | ablaH |
| Genitive | ablaH | aballL | aballN |
| Dative | abaillL | ablaib | ablaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Related terms
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| aball | unchanged | n-aball |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Stifter, David (18 September 2019), “An apple a day ...”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 124, issue 1, pages 172-218
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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