ábhal

See also: abhal

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish adbal[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɑːvˠəl̪ˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɑːwəlˠ/, /ˈɑːwəl̪ˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈaːwəlˠ/, /ˈaːwəl̪ˠ/

Adjective

ábhal (genitive singular masculine ábhail, genitive singular feminine áibhle, plural ábhala, comparative áibhle)

  1. great, immense, tremendous, vast

Declension

Declension of ábhal
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative ábhal ábhal ábhala
vocative ábhail ábhala
genitive áibhle ábhala ábhal
dative ábhal ábhal;
ábhail (archaic) 		ábhala
Comparative níos áibhle
Superlative is áibhle

Derived terms

  • ábhalchéim f (“giant-stride”)
  • ábhalmhór (“colossal”, adjective)
  • áibhle

Mutation

Mutated forms of ábhal
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ábhal n-ábhal hábhal not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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