uath
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing, horrible creature, spectre, phantom”).
Noun
uath m (genitive singular uatha)
Declension
Declension of uath
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Etymology 2
From Old Irish úath (“whitethorn; the name of the letter H”).
Noun
uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uatha)
- (literary) whitethorn
- name of the Ogham letter ᚆ (h)
Declension
Declension of uath
Synonyms
- (whitethorn): sceach
Etymology 3
Noun
uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uathanna)
- Alternative form of fuath (“form, shape; phantom, spectre”)
Declension
Declension of uath
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Etymology 4
Noun
uath m (genitive singular uatha)
- Alternative form of fuath (“hate, hatred”)
Declension
Declension of uath
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Etymology 5
Adjective
uath
- Alternative form of uafar (“dreadful, horrible”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
uath | n-uath | huath | t-uath |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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