Máel

See also: mael, Mael, Maël, máel, mæl, and mäl

Old Irish

Etymology

From máel (“servant, devout follower”).

Proper noun

Máel m

  1. As a name element, indicates a specific object of devotion
    • e.g., Mael Phádraic, Mael Ísa

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