cumgabál

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

cumgabáil (dative for nominative)

Etymology

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ gabál.

Noun

cumgabál f

verbal noun of con·ocaib
1. raising
  - 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. 138^a2
    .i. cumgabal inna lam hi crosfigill, is sí briathar lám insin; ⁊ is sí briathar súle dano a cumgabal suas dochum ṅDǽ ⁊ is si briathar glunæ ⁊ chos a filliud fri slechtan ⁊ issí briathar choirp dano intan roichther do dia oc slechtan ⁊ chrosigill.
    i.e. the raising of the hands in cross-vigil, that is the word of the hands, and the word of the eyes, moreover, is the raising of them up to God, and the word of the knees and of the legs is the bending of them in prostration, and the word of the body, moreover, is when it is extended to God in prostration and cross-vigil.
2. uplifting, exaltation
  - 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. 94^c2
    .i. ísligud són Assiriorum ⁊ chumgabal filiorum Israhel.
    i.e. that is, the humiliation of the Assyrians and the exaltation of the Children of Israel.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cumgabál^L	cumgabáil^L	cumgabála^H
vocative	cumgabál^L	cumgabáil^L	cumgabála^H
accusative	cumgabáil^N	cumgabáil^L	cumgabála^H
genitive	cumgabálae^H	cumgabál^L	cumgabál^N
dative	cumgabáil^L	cumgabálaib	cumgabálaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Descendants

Middle Irish: cumgabáil

Mutation

Mutation of *cumgabál*
radical	lenition	nasalization
cumgabál	chumgabál	cumgabál pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

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