imgabáil

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• immgabáil, imcabáil (St. Gall gloss spellings)

Etymology

From imm- +‎ gabál.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈim.ɣə.βaːlʲ/, [ˈimɣaβaːlʲ]

Noun

imgabáil f

1. verbal noun of imm·imgaib: avoiding, evasion, shirking, shunning
   • 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. 14^c12

     .i. a·tá in aicniud chaich denum maith ⁊ imgabail uilc do denum

     i.e. it is in the nature of every [person] to do good and to avoid doing evil.

   • 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. 203^a8

     cen imcabáil cacenfati ⁊ cen imcabáil cum nobis do epirt

     without avoiding cacophony and without avoiding saying cum nobis

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	imgabáilL	imgabáilL	imgabálaH
Vocative	imgabáilL	imgabáilL	imgabálaH
Accusative	imgabáilN	imgabáilL	imgabálaH
Genitive	imgabálaeH	imgabáilL	imgabáilN
Dative	imgabáilL	imgabálaib	imgabálaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: imgabáil
  • Irish: imghabháil

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
imgabáil	unchanged	n-imgabáil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imgabáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language