adhgharbh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish acarb, adgarb (“very rough, very fierce”), from ad + garb (compare modern garbh (“rough”)).

Adjective

adhgharbh (genitive singular masculine adhghairbh, genitive singular feminine adhghairbhe, plural adhgharbha, comparative adhghairbhe)

1. very rough

Declension

Declension of adhgharbh

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	adhgharbh	adhgharbh	adhgharbha
Vocative	adhghairbh		adhgharbha
Genitive		adhghairbhe	adhgharbha	adhgharbh
Dative	adhgharbh	adhgharbh; adhghairbh (archaic)	adhgharbha
Comparative	níos adhghairbhe
Superlative	is adhghairbhe

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhgharbh	n-adhgharbh	hadhgharbh	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) “adhgharbh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “acarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language