grábháil

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish grábáilid (engraves, verb), grábáil (engraving), from Middle English graven (English grave) + -áil.

Verb

grábháil (present analytic grábhálann, future analytic grábhálfaidh, verbal noun grábháil, past participle grábháilte)

  1. (transitive) engrave
  2. (transitive, nautical, of ship) grave

Conjugation

Derived terms

Noun

grábháil f (genitive singular grábhála)

  1. verbal noun of grábháil
  2. engraving
  3. (nautical, of ship) graving

Declension

Declension of grábháil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative grábháil
vocative a ghrábháil
genitive grábhála
dative grábháil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an ghrábháil
genitive na grábhála
dative leis an ngrábháil
don ghrábháil

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of grábháil
radical lenition eclipsis
grábháil ghrábháil ngrábháil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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