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aball
aball
Old Irish
Noun
aball f (genitive 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
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
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| 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
- “aball” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.