subachus

Old Irish

Etymology

From subach (“cheerful, merry, happy”) +‎ -us, from subae (“joy”)

Noun

subachus m

1. cheerfulness, gladness, joy, mirth
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1130

     sobraig a sobria .i. ōn subhachus

Inflection

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Descendants

• Irish: subhachas

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
subachus	ṡubachus	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “subachus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language