uafásach

Irish

Alternative forms

• uathbhásach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish úathbásach (“terrible, horrible; shocking, dreadful”). By surface analysis, uafás (“horror, terror”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈuːhɑːsˠəx/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ˈuːɑːsˠəx/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈuhæsˠa(h)/

Adjective

uafásach (genitive singular masculine uafásaigh, genitive singular feminine uafásaí, plural uafásacha, comparative uafásaí)

1. horrible, terrible, dreadful
2. vast, astonishing

Declension

Declension of uafásach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	uafásach	uafásach	uafásacha
Vocative	uafásaigh		uafásacha
Genitive		uafásaí	uafásacha	uafásach
Dative	uafásach	uafásach; uafásaigh (archaic)	uafásacha
Comparative	níos uafásaí
Superlative	is uafásaí

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uafásach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “uaṫḃásaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 772
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathbásach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language