anacol

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anextlom, from the stem *aneg-.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈanəkəl/

Noun

anacol n (genitive anacuil)

  1. verbal noun of aingid: protection
    • 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. 23a6
      .i. imb anacol dom fa nac
      i.e. whether it be protection to me or not

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative anacolN
Vocative anacolN
Accusative anacolN
Genitive anacuilL
Dative anacolL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: anacal

Mutation

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

References

  1. Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 180, page 113
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*aneg-tlo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 36

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.