úasal

See also: uasal and Uasal

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-. Cognate with Welsh uchel, Old Breton uchel (Breton uhel), and with Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi, “on high, aloft”) and ὑψηλός (hupsēlós, “high, lofty”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuːa̯sal/

Adjective

úasal (comparative úaisliu, superlative uaislem)

  1. high
  2. lofty, high-born
  3. noble, gallant, genteel

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Descendants

Noun

úasal ? (nominative plural uaisle)

  1. lofty place
  2. noble

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation

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

Further reading

  • “úasal” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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