abach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish apach n (“corpse, remains; entrails”).

Noun

abach m (genitive singular abaigh)

1. (literary) entrails

Declension

Declension of abach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative abach Vocative a abaigh Genitive abaigh Dative abach

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-abach Genitive an abaigh Dative leis an abach don abach

Derived terms

• abach a dhéanamh ar (“to botch”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
abach	n-abach	habach	t-abach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “abach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “apach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language