grábháil

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish grábáilid (engraves, verb), grábáil (engraving), from Middle English graven (English grave) + -áil.

Verb

grábháil (present analytic grábhálann, future analytic grábhálfaidh, verbal noun grábháil, past participle grábháilte)

  1. (transitive) engrave
  2. (transitive, nautical, of ship) grave

Conjugation

Derived terms

Noun

grábháil f (genitive singular grábhála)

  1. verbal noun of grábháil
  2. engraving
  3. (nautical, of ship) graving

Declension

Declension of grábháil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative grábháil
vocative a ghrábháil
genitive grábhála
dative grábháil

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of grábháil
radical lenition eclipsis
grábháil ghrábháil ngrábháil

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

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