úasal

== Old Irish == === Alternative forms === húasal === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-. Cognate with Welsh uchel, Old Breton uchel (Breton uhel), and with Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi, “on high, aloft”) and ὑψηλός (hupsēlós, “high, lofty”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈuːa̯.səl/ (Blasse) [ˈuːa̯.sal] (Griffith) [ˈuːa̯.səl] === Adjective === úasal (comparative úaisliu, superlative úaislem) high lofty, high-born noble, gallant, genteel ==== Inflection ==== Note: declined as an i-stem in the plural. ==== Quotations ==== 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. 33d10 ==== Derived terms ==== úaisle ==== Related terms ==== úachtar úas ==== Descendants ==== Irish: uasal Manx: ooasle Scottish Gaelic: uasal === Noun === úasal ? (nominative plural úaisle) lofty place noble ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: uasal Scottish Gaelic: uasal === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úasal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language