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/[1]
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɡawɑːlʲ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): (“yeast”) /ˈɡɔːlʲ/; (verbal noun of gabh) /ɡɔlʲ/, /ɡɔlˠ/, /ɡɔl̪ˠ/

Noun

gabháil m (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:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gabháil gabhálacha
Vocative a ghabháil a ghabhálacha
Genitive gabhála gabhálacha
Dative gabháil gabhálacha

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gabháil na gabhálacha
Genitive an ghabhála 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”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gabháil ghabháil ngabháil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43

Further reading
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