adhbha
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish adba (“abode, dwelling place”), verbal noun of *ad·fen.
Noun
[edit]adhbha f (genitive singular adhbhadh, nominative plural adhbhtha)
Declension
[edit]Declension of adhbha
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- adhbha éaga (“abode of death”)
- adhbha rón (“seal rookery”)
- adhbha sionnach (“foxes' lair”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
adhbha | n-adhbha | hadhbha | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhbha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 adba”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “adhbha”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024