fresgabál

Old Irish[edit]

From either frith- +‎ in- +‎ gabál or frith- +‎ com- +‎ gabál.^[1]^[2]

fresgabál f (genitive fresgabále)

rise, ascent (as physical actions)
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 42^c30
  .i. sechis óin fithis on .i. cen frisngabail, cen toined rl.
  i.e. that is, one course, i.e. without rising, without setting, etc.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56^b3
  .i. intan as·mber-som pes ⁊ manus, nochis arnaib gnimaib són du·ngniat-som honaib ballaib hisin at·beir-som .i. ar in chomtetracht ⁊ ind fresngabail.
  i.e. when he says pes and manus, it is for the deeds that they do with those members that he says it, namely, for seizing and ascending.
(Christianity) ascension to Heaven
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, August 29; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
  for fresgabáil Héli
  on Elijah's ascension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fresgabál^L	fresgabáil^L	fresgabála^H
Vocative	fresgabál^L	fresgabáil^L	fresgabála^H
Accusative	fresgabáil^N	fresgabáil^L	fresgabála^H
Genitive	fresgabále^H	fresgabál^L	fresgabál^N
Dative	fresgabáil^L	fresgabálaib	fresgabálaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fresgabál	ḟresgabál	fresgabál pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 530
^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 210-212