eabhartha
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish éburda, from ebur (“ivory”); synchronically, eabhar (“ivory”) + -tha (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
eabhartha
- ivory (of colour)
- Synonym: ar dhath an eabhair
Related terms
- dath an eabhair m (“ivory”) (colour)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| eabhartha | n-eabhartha | heabhartha | 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) “eabhartha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éburda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eabhartha”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “eabhartha”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024