adella

Old Irish

Etymology

ad- + Proto-Celtic *ɸalnati, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aðˈel͈a/

Verb

ad·ella (prototonic ·aidle, verbal noun adall)

1. to visit
2. to pass to

For quotations using this term, see Citations:adella.

Usage notes

In the sense ‘visit’, this verb is sometimes complemented by the preposition la (“with”) plus a pronoun referring back to the subject, with no discernible change in meaning, e.g. atdub·elliub lemm (“I will visit you”, literally “I will visit you with me”).

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			ad·ella ata·ella (with infixed pronoun da-)			ad·ellat
	Prot.			·aidle
Imperfect indicative	Deut.			ad·ellad
	Prot.			·aidled
Preterite	Deut.			ad·ell
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			ad·rell			ad·ralsat
	Prot.							·aidled
Future	Deut.	ad·elliub, ad·eilliub atdub·elliub (with infixed pronoun dub-)
	Prot.	·adliub		·aidlibe, ·aidliba, ·aidléba
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.							·aidlébthai
Present subjunctive	Deut.		ad·rella (ro-form)	ad·ella
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.		ro·adelta (ro-form)
	Prot.		·adelta
Imperative
Verbal noun		adall
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: aidlid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ad·ella (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	ad·n-ella
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), “ad·ella”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language