ranngabáil

Old Irish[edit]

From rann +‎ gabáil, a calque of Latin participium, itself a semantic loan of Ancient Greek μετοχή (metokhḗ).

ranngabáil f (genitive ranngabálae)

(linguistics) participle
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a3
  Is airi ní táet comṡuidigud fri rangabáil, húare as coibnesta do bréthir: ar is lour comṡuidigud fri suidi, air bid comṡuidigud etarscartha comṡuidigud rangabálae.
  This is why composition does not occur with a participle, because it is akin to a verb: for composition with the latter is sufficient, for composition of a participle will be separated composition.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ranngabáil^L	ranngabáil^L	ranngabála^H
Vocative	ranngabáil^L	ranngabáil^L	ranngabála^H
Accusative	ranngabáil^N	ranngabáil^L	ranngabála^H
Genitive	ranngabálae^H	ranngabáil^L	ranngabáil^N
Dative	ranngabáil^L	ranngabálaib	ranngabálaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ranngabáil also rranngabáil after a proclitic	ranngabáil pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.