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ábhar

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish adbar.[2]

Noun

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ábhar m (genitive singular ábhair, nominative plural ábhair)

  1. matter, material
  2. makings, potential qualities
  3. cause, reason
  4. subject, topic
  5. object
  6. matter, pus
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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ábhar m (genitive singular ábhair, nominative plural ábhair)

  1. (nautical) bed of rowlock

Declension

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Declension of ábhar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ábhar ábhair
Vocative a ábhair a ábhara
Genitive ábhair ábhar
Dative ábhar ábhair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-ábhar na hábhair
Genitive an ábhair na n-ábhar
Dative leis an ábhar

don ábhar

leis na hábhair

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ábhar n-ábhar hábhar t-ábhar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 17, page 10
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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