utmall

Old Irish

Etymology

Some derivative of mall (“slow”), with an uncertain prefix.

Adjective

utmall

1. unstable, fickle
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24^b5

     .i. ni cumme cach cáin-chomrac aris irchride utmall cach caínchomrac condid ticci.

     i.e. not equal is every benevolence, for perishable and unstable is every benevolence until thou comest to it.

   • 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. 4^b3

     ar ni cóir in fotha utmall

     for the unstable foundation is not fitting

2. restless
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 26^b14

     .i. nírbommar utmuill oc foigdi inter vos ɫ. nírbommar tromdi.

     i.e. we have not been restless in begging among you, or we have not been oppressive.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 127^c12

     .i. amal ṁbite in euin utmaill sin.

     i.e. as those restless birds are wont to be.

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	utmall	utmall	utmall
Vocative	utmaill* utmall**
Accusative	utmall	utmaill
Genitive	utmaill	utmaille	utmaill
Dative	utmall	utmaill	utmall
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	utmaill	utmalla
Vocative	utmallu utmalla†
Accusative	utmallu utmalla†
Genitive	utmall
Dative	utmallaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Descendants

• Middle Irish: utmall
  • Irish: udhmhall

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
utmall	unchanged	n-utmall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “utmall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language