amal

See also: Amal and Åmål

French

Noun

amal m (uncountable)

1. Amal (language)

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Irish

Noun

amal m (genitive singular amail, nominative plural amail)

1. Alternative form of gamal (“gomeral, lout, simpleton, fool”)

Declension

Declension of amal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative amal amail Vocative a amail a amala Genitive amail amal Dative amal amail

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-amal na hamail Genitive an amail na n-amal Dative leis an amal don amal leis na hamail

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amal	n-amal	hamal	t-amal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• amail

Etymology

From unstressed form of samail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaṽal/

Conjunction

amal (followed by indirect relative)

1. as, like
2. when, while

For quotations using this term, see Citations:amal.

Descendants

• Irish: amhail

Preposition

amal (with accusative, lenites)

1. as, like

For quotations using this term, see Citations:amal.

Derived terms

• -amail
• amal ṡodin

 

Descendants

• Irish: amhail

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amail, amal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 168, 178, 826