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gabháil

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See also: gabhail

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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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

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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 ghabháil na gabhálacha
genitive na gabhála na ngabhálacha
dative leis an ngabháil
don ghabháil
leis na gabhálacha

Derived terms

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

Verb

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

  1. take
  2. arrest

Conjugation

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Mutation

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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

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  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), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 128
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 27, page 14

Further reading

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