núall

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *nowslom (“a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *newH- (“to cry, roar”) (compare Sanskrit नवते (návate, “to roar”) and Tocharian B nu- (“to roar”).

núall n or m (genitive núaill)

a loud noise
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Ep. 405; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
  Ar écnairc ind ríg-sa fris·n-agar a nnúall-sa, fa·rith asint sním-sa, in pauperán trúag-sa!
  For the sake of the king to whom this cry was made, help him out of this sadness, this wretched pauper!
a cry of joy
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51^c9
  is in núall do·ngniat hó ru·maith for a náimtea remib
  it is the cry that they make when their enemies are defeated by them

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	núall^N	núall^N	núall^L, núalla
Vocative	núall^N	núall^N	núall^L, núalla
Accusative	núall^N	núall^N	núall^L, núalla
Genitive	núaill^L	núall	núall^N
Dative	núall^L	núallaib	núallaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	núall	núall^L	núaill^L
Vocative	núaill	núall^L	núallu^H
Accusative	núall^N	núall^L	núallu^H
Genitive	núaill^L	núall	núall^N
Dative	núall^L	núallaib	núallaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
núall also nnúall after a proclitic	núall pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.