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"*gaβaɨl",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/gaβaɨl"
],
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"Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/gabaglā"
],
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"gabál",
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]
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"etymology_text": "From Proto-Brythonic *gaβaɨl, from Proto-Celtic *gabaglā. Cognate with Old Irish gabál.",
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"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
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},
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"form": "l-self",
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{
"form": "gauael",
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]
},
{
"form": "auael",
"source": "mutation",
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]
}
],
"lang": "Middle Welsh",
"lang_code": "wlm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
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"name": "Middle Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
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42,
48
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67
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"english": "“To God I bring my confession’, she said, “you have got a firm grip on a companion as regards fighting and temptation of the body and keeping faith with you.”",
"ref": "14th century, anonymous author, edited by R. L. Thomson, Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet (Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series; vol. I), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, published 1980, page 7, lines 166–68:",
"text": "‘I Duw y dygaf uyng kyffes,’ heb hitheu, ‘gauael gadarn a geueist ar gedymdeith yn herwyd ymlad a frouedigaeth y gorff, a chadw kywirdeb wrthyt titheu!’",
"translation": "“To God I bring my confession’, she said, “you have got a firm grip on a companion as regards fighting and temptation of the body and keeping faith with you.”",
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}
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"gabál",
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],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Brythonic *gaβaɨl, from Proto-Celtic *gabaglā. Cognate with Old Irish gabál.",
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"Middle Welsh lemmas",
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"ref": "14th century, anonymous author, edited by R. L. Thomson, Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet (Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series; vol. I), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, published 1980, page 7, lines 166–68:",
"text": "‘I Duw y dygaf uyng kyffes,’ heb hitheu, ‘gauael gadarn a geueist ar gedymdeith yn herwyd ymlad a frouedigaeth y gorff, a chadw kywirdeb wrthyt titheu!’",
"translation": "“To God I bring my confession’, she said, “you have got a firm grip on a companion as regards fighting and temptation of the body and keeping faith with you.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈɡavaɨ̯l/"
}
],
"word": "gauael"
}
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