uasal

See also: Uasal and úasal

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /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
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive 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:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative uasal uaisle
Vocative a uasail a uaisle
Genitive uasail uaisle
Dative uasal uaisle

Forms with the definite article:

Case 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
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
uasal n-uasal huasal t-uasal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Adjective

uasal

  1. Alternative spelling of úasal

Noun

uasal ?

  1. Alternative spelling of úasal

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
uasal unchanged n-uasal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish úasal, 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
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
uasaln-uasalh-uasalt-uasal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uasal”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “úasal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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