Talk:caile

Old Irish – gender

@Mellohi!, could you add some citation for the gender and stem class? I see eDIL doesn’t give one (I had once added neuter because I misread the n meaning ‘noun’ there for gender info, so reverted it), and it gives classical genitive an chaile which definitely doesn’t look feminine and the grammatical tracts on declension lists it among masculine nouns, though notes acht an bainindscne indte (but this certainly could have been different in OIr.) // Silmeth ^@talk 20:31, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

@Silmethule: In the MIr. Leinster recension of TBC, there's the following sentence as cited in DIL: "Cid ra·mer in cali ┐ in banaccaid?" ("What has crazed the servant-girl and peasant woman?") Here, in cali is clearly in the accusative singular. A nominative singular in -e contrasting with an accusative singular in -i is characteristic of a feminine ia-stem. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 00:46, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

@Mellohi!: Thanks! That’s good evidence. :) (though during MIr. caile and caili would be homophones, so this could have been just a hypercorrect spelling by late scribe too 🤔). // Silmeth ^@talk 09:12, 19 July 2021 (UTC)