gabhal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gabul (“fork, forked branch”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gabhal m (genitive singular gabhail, nominative plural gabhail)

  1. fork (of a road)
  2. branch
  3. split
  4. crotch
    • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal, page 18, § 40:
      vɛ:r̥ə m′ə kick sə ℊo:l ℊyd′, said by boys
      (conventional orthography of the above phonetic transcription): Bhéarfaidh mé kick sa ghabhal dhuit
      I’m going to kick you in the crotch.
  5. udder, bag (of a cow)
    • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal, page 18, § 40:
      tα: go:l mαiç bwæN′ə ɛg′ ə wɔ: ʃïn′
      (conventional orthography of the above phonetic transcription): Tá gabhal maith bainne ag an bhó sin
      That cow has a good bag of milk.
  6. (cycling) bicycle fork
  7. (chess) fork

Declension
Declension of gabhal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gabhal gabhail
Vocative a ghabhail a ghabhala
Genitive gabhail gabhal
Dative gabhal gabhail

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gabhal na gabhail
Genitive an ghabhail na ngabhal
Dative leis an ngabhal

don ghabhal

 leis na gabhail

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gabhal ghabhal ngabhal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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