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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish gabál, from Proto-Celtic *gabaglā; compare Welsh gafael. By surface analysis, gabh + -áil, though this verbal noun itself is the origin of the suffix -áil.
Pronunciation
Noun
gabháil m (genitive singular gabhála, nominative plural gabhálacha)
- verbal noun of gabh
- catch, seizure, capture; assumption (of authority); occupation (of territory); acceptance; undertaking; tolerance
- fitting, adjustment; yoke, harness; attire; control; prop, support
- (music, poetry) rendering
- barm, yeast, leaven
- Synonym: giosta
Declension
Derived terms
- gabhálach (“taking, catching; receptive; contagious; gripping, grasping, occupying; possessive, avaricious”)
- gabhálacht (“receptiveness, receptivity; contagiousness; graspingness, avarice”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| gabháil
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ghabháil
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ngabháil
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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