ábharthacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adbardacht (“materiality”). By surface analysis, ábhartha (“material, relevant”) +‎ -acht (nominal suffix).

Noun

ábharthacht f (genitive singular ábharthachta)

1. relevance, relevancy, materiality, pertinence

Declension

Declension of ábharthacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative ábharthacht Vocative a ábharthacht Genitive ábharthachta Dative ábharthacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an ábharthacht Genitive na hábharthachta Dative leis an ábharthacht don ábharthacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ábharthacht	n-ábharthacht	hábharthacht	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) “ábharthacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbardacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ábharthacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ábharthacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024