turcbál

Old Irish

Etymology

to- +‎ uss- +‎ ro- +‎ gabál

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈturɡvaːl]

Noun

turcbál f

1. verbal noun of do·furgaib
   1. raising, rise
      • 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. 85^c14

        .i. ⁊ inní sin fudumain .i. ní cummae fri cach crïeid, airis ansu turcbál essisi ara rigni ⁊ a domnai indaas cech cré.

        i.e. and that deep, i.e. it is not the same as any clay, because it is more difficult to emerge from it on account of its tenacity and its depth than any clay.

      • 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. 94^b18

        .i. áis fil oc tuircbail grene.

        i.e. people who are at the rising of the sun.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	turcbálL	—	—
Vocative	turcbálL	—	—
Accusative	turcbáilN	—	—
Genitive	turcbálaeH	—	—
Dative	turcbáilL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “turcbál”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language