uasal

See also: Uasal and úasal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish úasal,[1] from Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase, enlarge”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuəsˠəl̪ˠ/[2], /ˈuəsˠəlˠ/

Adjective

uasal (genitive singular masculine uasail, genitive singular feminine uaisle, plural uaisle, comparative uaisle)

  1. noble, high-born, aristocratic; gentle, gentlemanly, gallant, genteel, lofty
  2. noble, precious, fine
  3. sacred to the dead; hallowed; enchanted, inhabited by fairies (of place)

Declension

Declension of uasal
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative uasal uasal uaisle
vocative uasail uaisle
genitive uaisle uaisle uasal
dative uasal uasal;
uasail (archaic) 		uaisle
Comparative níos uaisle
Superlative is uaisle

Derived terms

  • a dhaoine uaisle (“ladies and gentlemen”)
  • anuasal (“low-born, ignoble”, adjective)
  • bean uasal (“lady, gentlewoman”)
  • cloch uasal (“precious stone”)
  • duine uasal (“gentle(wo)man”)
  • éadaí uaisle (“fine clothes”)
  • fear uasal (“gentleman”)
  • gníomh uasal (“noble deed”)
  • meon uasal (“noble mind”)
  • miotal uasal (“noble metal”)
  • na healaíona uaisle (“the fine arts”)
  • stíl uasal (“elevated style”)
  • uasalathair (“patriarch”)

Noun

uasal m (genitive singular uasail, nominative plural uaisle)

  1. nobleman, gentleman, aristocrat
  2. (nobility) lord

Declension

Declension of uasal (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative uasal uaisle
vocative a uasail a uaisle
genitive uasail uaisle
dative uasal uaisle
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-uasal na huaisle
genitive an uasail na n-uaisle
dative leis an uasal
don uasal 		leis na huaisle

Derived terms

  • anuasal (“low-born person”)
  • mionuasal (“lesser nobleman, lordling”)
  • na huaisle (“the good people, the fairies”)
  • An tUasal (“Mister; Lord, Esquire”, literally “the Gentleman/Lord”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uasal
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uasal n-uasal huasal t-uasal

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úasal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 209, page 105

Further reading

Old Irish

Adjective

uasal

  1. alternative spelling of úasal

Noun

uasal ?

  1. alternative spelling of úasal

Mutation

Mutation of uasal
radical lenition nasalization
uasal
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)		 uasal n-uasal

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish úasal,[1] from Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase, enlarge”).

Adjective

uasal

  1. aristocratic, noble, grand, genteel

Derived terms

  • an-uasal
  • bean-uasal
  • clach-uasal
  • deoch-uasal
  • eun-uasal
  • fìor-uasal
  • galar-uasal
  • mì-uasal
  • mór-uasal
  • neo-uasal
  • uasal-ghnìomhach

Noun

uasal m (genitive singular uasail, plural uaislean)

  1. a noble

Mutation

Mutation of uasal
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uasal n-uasal h-uasal t-uasal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uasal”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úasal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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