selb

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *selwā. Cognate with Welsh elw.

Noun

selb f (nominative plural selba)

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	selb^L	seilb^L	selba^H
vocative	selb^L	seilb^L	selba^H
accusative	seilb^N	seilb^L	selba^H
genitive	selbae^H	selb^L	selb^N
dative	seilb^L	selbaib	selbaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: selb
- Irish: seilbh
- Scottish Gaelic: seilbh
- Manx: shelloo

Mutation

Mutation of *selb*
radical	lenition	nasalization
selb	ṡelb	selb

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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