anacol

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• anacul

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anextlom, from the stem *aneg-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanəkəl/

Noun

anacol n (genitive anacuil)

1. verbal noun of aingid: protection
   • 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. 23^a6

     .i. imb anacol dom fa nac

     i.e. whether it be protection to me or not

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	anacolN	—	—
Vocative	anacolN	—	—
Accusative	anacolN	—	—
Genitive	anacuilL	—	—
Dative	anacolL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• adnacul
• tindnacol

 

Descendants

• Middle Irish: anacal
  • Irish: anacal

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
anacol	unchanged	n-anacol
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), “anacul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language