maol

Etymology

From Old Irish máel (“bald, hornless, blunt”), from Proto-Celtic *maylos.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠeːl̪ˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠiːlˠ/

Adjective

maol (genitive singular masculine maoil, genitive singular feminine maoile, plural maola, comparative maoile)

1. 1. bare, bald
   2. bare, unprotected

      Proverb:

      Is maol gualainn gan bhráthair. ― It is not good to stand alone.

2. 1. hornless
   2. cropped
3. roofless, dismantled
4. edgeless, blunt
5. flattened; (geometry) obtuse
6. (music, of tone) flat
7. dense, obtuse
8. late in day
9. (intensifying)

   Bhí sé maol marbh. ― He was stone dead; he was in a dead faint.

Noun

maol m, f (genitive singular maoil or maoile, nominative plural maoil or maola)

1. bare, bald object
2. 1. (literary) devotee
   2. servant
3. blunt object
4. dense, obtuse, person.
5. (music) flat

Noun 2

maol f (genitive singular maoile)

Verb

maol (present analytic maolann, future analytic maolfaidh, verbal noun maoladh, past participle maoltha)

1. Alternative form of maolaigh

Mutation

Further reading

• "maol" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 mael” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 mael” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology

From Old Irish máel (“bald, hornless, blunt”), from Proto-Celtic *maylos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɯːɫ̪/

Adjective

maol

1. bald (head etc)
2. hornless
3. blunt (razor etc)
4. (music) flat

Mutation

Further reading

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “1 mael” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.