gabháil

See also: gabhail

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

  • (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

gabháil f (genitive singular gabhála, nominative plural gabhálacha)

  1. verbal noun of gabh
  2. catch, seizure, capture; assumption (of authority); occupation (of territory); acceptance; undertaking; tolerance
  3. fitting, adjustment; yoke, harness; attire; control; prop, support
  4. (music, poetry) rendering
  5. barm, yeast, leaven
    Synonym: giosta

Declension

Declension of gabháil (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gabháil gabhálacha
vocative a ghabháil a ghabhálacha
genitive gabhála gabhálacha
dative gabháil gabhálacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ghabháil na gabhálacha
genitive na gabhála na ngabhálacha
dative leis an ngabháil
don ghabháil
leis na gabhálacha

Derived terms

  • gabhálach (taking, catching; receptive; contagious; gripping, grasping, occupying; possessive, avaricious)
  • gabhálacht (receptiveness, receptivity; contagiousness; graspingness, avarice)

Descendants

  • English: gwall

Verb

gabháil (present analytic gabhálann, future analytic gabhálfaidh, verbal noun gabháil, past participle gabháilte) (transitive)

  1. take
  2. arrest

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of gabháil
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

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 128
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 27, page 14

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