ranngabáil

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• rangabáil

Etymology

From rann +‎ gabál, a calque of Latin participium, itself a semantic loan of Ancient Greek μετοχή (metokhḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈr͈an͈ˌɣaβaːlʲ]

Noun

ranngabáil f (genitive ranngabálae)

1. (grammar) participle
   • 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. 159^a3

     Is airi ní táet comṡuidigud fri rangabáil, húare as coibnesta do bréthir: ar is lour comṡuidigud fri suidi, air bid comṡuidigud etarscartha comṡuidigud rangabálae.

     This is why composition does not occur with a participle, because it is akin to a verb: for composition with the latter is sufficient, for composition of a participle will be separated composition.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ranngabáilL	ranngabáilL	ranngabálaH
vocative	ranngabáilL	ranngabáilL	ranngabálaH
accusative	ranngabáilN	ranngabáilL	ranngabálaH
genitive	ranngabálaeH	ranngabáilL	ranngabáilN
dative	ranngabáilL	ranngabálaib	ranngabálaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

• ranngabálda
• ranngabáltaid

Descendants

• Irish: rangabháil

Mutation

Mutation of ranngabáil

radical	lenition	nasalization
ranngabáil also rranngabáil after a proclitic ending in a vowel	ranngabáil pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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), “ranngabál”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language