máel

See also: mael and Máel

Old Irish

máel

bald, bare, shaved, shorn, tonsured
1. (pre-Christian) as of a slave.
2. (after the introduction of Christianity to Ireland) as of someone who is devoted (to God or to a given saint)
(of cattle) hornless
blunt, flattened, obtuse, pointless
(of places) bare, exposed, defenceless

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	máel	máel	máel
Vocative	maíl* máel**	máel
Accusative	máel	maíl
Genitive	maíl	maíle	maíl
Dative	máel	maíl	máel
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	maíl	máela
Vocative	máelu máela†
Accusative	máelu máela†
Genitive	máel
Dative	máelaib
Notes	modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative *modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

máel f (genitive maíle, nominative plural máela)

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	máel^L	maíl^L	máela^H
Vocative	máel^L	maíl^L	máela^H
Accusative	maíl^N	maíl^L	máela^H
Genitive	maíle^H	máel^L	máel^N
Dative	maíl^L	máelaib	máelaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
máel also mmáel after a proclitic ending in a vowel	máel pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.