dígbáil

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Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ gabál.

Noun

dígbáil f

  1. verbal noun of do·gaib: reduction, diminishing
    • 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. 45b7
      á Catuláin ⁊ ni·bí digbail folaid and calléic, cia beith ind apélugud.
      O little Catulus; and there is still no diminution of substance here, though there be the caressing.
  2. expenditure
  3. detriment

Inflection

The genitive singular is attested as dígbála in the St. Gall Priscian glosses; however, this could be simply a spelling mistake instead of indicating i-stem inflection.

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dígbáilL — —
Vocative dígbáilL — —
Accusative dígbáilN — —
Genitive dígbalaeH — —
Dative dígbáilL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: dígbáil

Mutation

Mutation of dígbáil
radical lenition nasalization
dígbáil dígbáil
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndígbáil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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