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Where does “Dail” come from?

Dail comes from Irish dáil, from Old Irish dál, from Proto-Celtic datlā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots deh₂- and dʰeh₁- combined with instrumental suffixes -trom and -tḗr.

Ancestry of “Dail”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1IrishDáilthe lower house of the Irish parliament
2Old Irishdálpart, share; land in which a tribe lives;...
3Proto-Celticdatlāmeeting, assembly
4Proto-Indo-Europeandh₁-tl-eh₂—
5Proto-Indo-European-tlomAlternative form of *-trom
6Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
7Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
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