gadael

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave behind, abandon”); compare Sanskrit जहाति (jahāti, “to desert, leave, resign”), Ancient Greek χήρα (khḗra, “widow”) and Latin hērēs (“heir”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɡadaɨ̯l/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈɡadɛl/, /ˈɡadal/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːdai̯l/, /ˈɡadai̯l/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːdɛl/, /ˈɡadɛl/
• Rhymes: -adaɨ̯l

Verb

gadael (first-person singular present gadawaf)

1. (intransitive) to leave, to depart

   Synonym: mynd i ffwrdd

2. (intransitive) to leave, to exit, to go out

   Synonyms: mynd allan, allanu

3. (transitive) to leave, to abandon, to leave behind
4. (intransitive) to quit
5. (transitive) to let, to allow
6. (transitive, with preposition i) to leave, to bequeath

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	gadawaf	gadewi	gedy	gadawn	gadewch	gadawant	gadewir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/conditional	gadawn	gadawit	gadawai	gadawem	gadawech	gadawent	gadewid
preterite	gadewais	gadewaist	gadawodd	gadawsom	gadawsoch	gadawsant	gadawyd
pluperfect	gadawswn	gadawsit	gadawsai	gadawsem	gadawsech	gadawsent	gadawsid, gadewsid
present subjunctive	gadawyf	gadewych	gadawo	gadawom	gadawoch	gadawont	gadawer
imperative	—	gad	gadawed	gadawn	gadewch	gadawent	gadawer
verbal noun	gadael
verbal adjectives	gadawedig gadawadwy

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	gadawa i, gadawaf i	gadawi di	gadawith o/e/hi, gadawiff e/hi	gadawn ni	gadawch chi	gadawan nhw
conditional	gadawn i, gadawswn i	gadawet ti, gadawset ti	gadawai fo/fe/hi, gadawsai fo/fe/hi	gadawen ni, gadawsen ni	gadawech chi, gadawsech chi	gadawen nhw, gadawsen nhw
preterite	gadawais i, gadawes i	gadawaist ti, gadawest ti	gadawodd o/e/hi	gadawon ni	gadawoch chi	gadawon nhw
imperative	—	gadawa	—	—	gadawch	—
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

• Alternative third-person singular subjunctive: gato

Mutation

Mutated forms of gadael

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gadael	adael	ngadael	unchanged

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

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gadael”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies