máel

See also: mael and Máel

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *maylos; cognate with Welsh moel.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /maːi̯l/

Adjective

máel

  1. 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)
  2. (of cattle) hornless
  3. blunt, flattened, obtuse, pointless
  4. (of places) bare, exposed, defenceless

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Noun

máel f (nominative plural maíl)

  1. A head or shaved head.
  2. bare or blunt object.
  3. A rounded or convex surface; a flat-topped hillock.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
máel
also mmáel after a proclitic		 máel
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/		 máel
also mmáel after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • “1 mael” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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