ríagol
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editríagol f
- rule
- 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. 9a22 (Wikisource link)
- Cía for·comam-ni ríagoil sen-Gréc hi scríbunt in dá caractar isnaib ɔsonaib ucut, ro·cruthaigsemmar camaiph immurgu óen charactar – ·f· tar hési ·p· co tinfeth – i n‑epertaib Latinṅdaib.
- Although we preserve the rule of the ancient Greeks in writing the two characters in those consonants, we have, however, formed one character – f instead of p with lenition – in Latin words.
- 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. 9a22 (Wikisource link)
Declension
editFeminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | ríagolL | ríagoilL | ríaglaH |
Vocative | ríagolL | ríagoilL | ríaglaH |
Accusative | ríagoilN | ríagoilL | ríaglaH |
Genitive | *ríaglaeH | ríagolL | ríagolN |
Dative | ríagoilL | ríaglaib | ríaglaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ríagol also rríagol after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
ríagol pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ríagal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language