gabháil
Appearance
See also: gabhail
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish gabál, from Proto-Celtic *gabaglā; compare Welsh gafael. By surface analysis, gabh + -áil, though this verbal noun itself is the origin of the suffix -áil.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /ɡvˠɑːlʲ(tʲ)/[1]
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔwɑːlʲ/[2]
- (Ulster) IPA(key): (“yeast”) /ˈɡɔːlʲ/; (verbal noun of gabh) /ɡɔlʲ/, /ɡɔlˠ/, /ɡɔl̪ˠ/[3]
Noun
[edit]gabháil f (genitive singular gabhála, nominative plural gabhálacha)
- verbal noun of gabh
- catch, seizure, capture; assumption (of authority); occupation (of territory); acceptance; undertaking; tolerance
- fitting, adjustment; yoke, harness; attire; control; prop, support
- (music, poetry) rendering
- barm, yeast, leaven
- Synonym: giosta
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- gabhálach (“taking, catching; receptive; contagious; gripping, grasping, occupying; possessive, avaricious”)
- gabhálacht (“receptiveness, receptivity; contagiousness; graspingness, avarice”)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: gwall
Verb
[edit]gabháil (present analytic gabhálann, future analytic gabhálfaidh, verbal noun gabháil, past participle gabháilte) (transitive)
Conjugation
[edit]† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| gabháil | ghabháil | ngabháil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 80, page 43
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 128
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 27, page 14
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “gabháil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “gabháil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “gabháil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰeh₁bʰ-
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kagʰ-
- Irish terms suffixed with -áil
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish verbal nouns
- ga:Music
- ga:Poetry
- Irish third-declension nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish transitive verbs
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class B
- ga:Fungi