ingabál

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ingabáil (dative for nominative)

Etymology

From in- +‎ gabál.

Noun

ingabál f

1. verbal noun of in·gaib: reproach, censure
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^a8

     .i. ba uisse a ingabail […]

     i.e. it was just to censure him […]

   • 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. 54^a10

     .i. is gnath do firianaib a n-ingabal ab hominibus .i. intan ɔda·[a]irleici Dia isna fochaidi inna firianu.

     i.e. their being reproached by men is usual for the righteous, namely, when God lets the righteous [fall] into tribulations.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ingabálL	—	—
Vocative	ingabálL	—	—
Accusative	ingabáilN	—	—
Genitive	ingabálaeH	—	—
Dative	ingabáilL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ingabál	unchanged	n-ingabál
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ingabál”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language