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Irish
Etymology
Extracted from gabháil and fáil (earlier faghbháil).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-áil f
- suffix used to form verbal nouns
- fáil, formerly spelled fagháil, verbal noun of faigh (“to get”)
- gabháil, verbal noun of gabh (“to take”)
Declension
Suffix
-áil
- suffix used productively to form denominative verbs and their associated verbal nouns
- iarann (“iron”) + -áil → iarnáil (“to iron”)
- spág (“a big, clumsy foot”) + -áil → spágáil (“to shamble, trudge”)
Usage notes
This suffix is particularly common with English loanwords. The Irish-language poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh in his poem "Cainteoir Dúchais" (published 1997 in the collection Out in the Open) uses the following verbs, most of them probably nonce words:
Derived terms