airle

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airle (“counsel”).[1]

Noun

airle f (genitive singular airle)

  1. (literary) (act of) consulting, counselling; counsel, advice

Declension
Declension of airle

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative airle
Vocative a airle
Genitive airle
Dative airle

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an airle
Genitive na hairle
Dative leis an airle

don airle

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

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

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-lay-ā.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈar͈ʲl͈ʲe]

Noun

airle f

  1. counsel, advice
  2. deliberation, consideration
  3. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. management
      • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 31c7
        arna érbarthar, “Ó chretsit, nín·tá airli ar mban”
        lest it be said, “Since they believed, we do not have management (?) of our women”
    2. treatment
    3. settling
    4. provision

Declension
Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative airleL airliL airli
Vocative airleL airliL airli
Accusative airliN airliL airli
Genitive airle airleL airleN
Dative airliL airlib airlib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: airle
  • Scottish Gaelic: airle

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
airle unchanged n-airle
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*la-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235

Further reading
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