selb

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *selwā. Cognate with Welsh elw.

Noun

selb f (nominative plural selba)

1. property
2. possession

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	selbL	seilbL	selbaH
Vocative	selbL	seilbL	selbaH
Accusative	seilbN	seilbL	selbaH
Genitive	selbaeH	selbL	selbN
Dative	seilbL	selbaib	selbaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: selb
  • Irish: seilbh
  • Scottish Gaelic: seilbh
  • Manx: shelloo

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
selb	ṡelb	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “selb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language