deabhaidh

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish debuith (strife, contention).[3]

Noun

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deabhaidh f (genitive singular deafa, nominative plural deafa)

  1. conflict, strife
Declension
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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deabhaidh

  1. genitive singular of deabhadh

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deabhaidh dheabhaidh ndeabhaidh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “debuith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language