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

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	imgabáil^L	imgabáil^L	imgabála^H
vocative	imgabáil^L	imgabáil^L	imgabála^H
accusative	imgabáil^N	imgabáil^L	imgabála^H
genitive	imgabálae^H	imgabáil^L	imgabáil^N
dative	imgabáil^L	imgabálaib	imgabálaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: imgabáil
- Irish: imghabháil

Mutation

Mutation of *imgabáil*
radical	lenition	nasalization
imgabáil (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	imgabáil	n-imgabáil

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

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