imgabáil
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editimgabáil 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
editFeminine 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
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
imgabáil (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-imgabáil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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