ághasta

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ágasta (“to be feared, fearful, dreadful”) (compare ad·ágathar (“fears, dreads, stands in awe of”)).

Adjective

ághasta

1. (literary) fearful, dreadful

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ághasta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ágasta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language