adhfhuath

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhuath

Etymology

From Old Irish adúath, adḟúath (“great dread, horror; monster”), from ad- + úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing”).

Noun

adhfhuath m (genitive singular adhfhuatha)

1. horror

Declension

Declension of adhfhuath

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative adhfhuath Vocative a adhfhuath Genitive adhfhuatha Dative adhfhuath

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-adhfhuath Genitive an adhfhuatha Dative leis an adhfhuath don adhfhuath

Related terms

• adhfhuafaireacht f, adhfhuathmhaire f (“horror, abomination”)
• adhfhuafar (“horrible, abominable”, adjective)
• adhfhuathaigh (“dread, abhor”, verb)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

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