máel
Old Irish
/maːi̯l/
adj
Definitions
- bald, bare, shaved, shorn, tonsured
- of cattle hornless
- blunt, flattened, obtuse, pointless
- of places bare, exposed, defenceless
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Celtic *mailos.
Origin
Proto-Celtic
*mailos
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bemad English
- mad English
- madbrain English
- madbrained English
- madcap English
- maddish English
- maddle English
- madhouse English
- madling English
- madly English
- madman English
- madness English
- madperson English
- madsome English
- madstone English
- madwoman English
- madwort English
- semimad English
- unmad English
- MAD Japanese
- mad Middle English
- Maoldúin Irish
- maol Irish
- maolagán Irish
- maolaigh Irish
- maolaisnéis Irish
- Llong Foel Welsh
- moel Welsh
- Máel Dúin Old Irish
- dúin Old Irish
- maol Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- meayl Manx
- *mailos Proto-Celtic
- moal Breton
- *moɨl Proto-Brythonic
- moel Middle Welsh
- moel Middle Breton