popul

(in general sense) people
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St. Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
  Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑ái fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
  It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.
a people, tribe, nation, inhabitants of a country, district, town
a large number of persons held together by some common interest
folk, people (in general)
populace, crowd

In the Würzburg glosses and Blathmac's poetry, this term is neuter. In the Milan glosses, it is masculine.

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	popul	popul^L	popuil^L
Vocative	popuil	popul^L	poplu^H
Accusative	popul^N	popul^L	poplu^H
Genitive	popuil^L	popul	popul^N
Dative	popul^L	poplaib	poplaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	popul^N	popul^N	popul^L, popla
Vocative	popul^N	popul^N	popul^L, popla
Accusative	popul^N	popul^N	popul^L, popla
Genitive	popuil^L	popul	popul^N
Dative	popul^L	poplaib	poplaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
popul	phopul or unchanged	popul pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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