imgabáil
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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. 14c12
- .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. 203a8
- cen imcabáil cacenfati ⁊ cen imcabáil cum nobis do epirt
- without avoiding cacophony and without avoiding saying cum nobis
- 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. 14c12
Inflection
[edit]Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | imgabáilL | imgabáilL | imgabálaH |
Vocative | imgabáilL | imgabáilL | imgabálaH |
Accusative | imgabáilN | imgabáilL | imgabálaH |
Genitive | imgabálaeH | imgabáilL | imgabáilN |
Dative | imgabáilL | imgabálaib | imgabálaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]- Middle Irish: imgabáil
- Irish: imghabháil
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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imgabáil (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | 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
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imgabáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language