Old Irish

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Etymology

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From either to- +‎ uss- or to- +‎ fo- + Proto-Celtic *-liyom.

Noun

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tólae n

  1. flood
    • 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. 03b13
      .i. acht intan mbis tolae flechuid indib.
      i.e. except when there is a flood of rain in them.

Inflection

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Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tólaeN tólaeL tólaeL
Vocative tólaeN tólaeL tólaeL
Accusative tólaeN tólaeL tólaeL
Genitive tólaiL tólaeL tólaeN
Dative tóluL tólaib tólaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: tóla

Mutation

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Mutation of tólae
radical lenition nasalization
tólae thólae tólae
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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