aball

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *abalnā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaval͈/

Noun

aball f (genitive abla, nominative plural abla)

1. apple tree
   • 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. 61^b5:

     aball glosses malus (“apple tree”)

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	aballL	abaillL	ablaH
Vocative	aballL	abaillL	ablaH
Accusative	abaillN	abaillL	ablaH
Genitive	ablaH	aballL	aballN
Dative	abaillL	ablaib	ablaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Related terms

• uball

Descendants

• Irish: abhaill
• Scottish Gaelic: abhall

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
aball (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aball
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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