gabh
Gaelic (Scots)
/kav/
verb
Definitions
- take, accept, receive, have
- contain, hold
- sing, say, give, deliver, perform
- get infected
- assume, pretend
- burn, kindle, ferment
- undertake, endeavour, be concerned with
- arrange
- can
- must, be compelled to
- enlist, engage as a servant
- make secure
- entertain, treat
- acknowledge
- worry
- conceive, become pregnant
- beat, belabour
- betake, repair, proceed, go motion
- rest
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish gaibid (take, grasp, receive, seize, lays hold of, hold, grasps) inherited from Proto-Celtic *gabyeti (take, hold) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (take, grab, hold).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰeh₁bʰ-
Gloss
take, grab, hold
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- debitum Latin
- duo Latin
- dēbita Latin
- dēbitum Latin
- dēbēre Latin
- exhibitus Latin
- habilis Latin
- habilitās Latin
- habitus Latin
- inhibitus Latin
- prohibeo Latin
- devoir French
- *(s)kep- Proto-Indo-European
- *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰeh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gʰh₁bʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- gafeluc Old English
- dout Middle English
- gabh Irish
- gabháil Irish
- devoir Old French
- doute Old French
- գօտի Old Armenian
- argaib Old Irish
- congaib Old Irish
- fogaib Old Irish
- fo·gaib Old Irish
- foácaib Old Irish
- gabul Old Irish
- gaibid Old Irish
- immimgaib Old Irish
- indocbál Old Irish
- turcbál Old Irish
- ·fácaib Old Irish
- ath-ghabh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- gow Manx
- *gabaglā Proto-Celtic
- *gablā Proto-Celtic
- *gabyeti Proto-Celtic
- *wereti Proto-Celtic
- *habēō Proto-Italic