adhgharbh
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish acarb, adgarb (“very rough, very fierce”), from ad + garb (compare modern garbh (“rough”)).
Adjective
editadhgharbh (genitive singular masculine adhghairbh, genitive singular feminine adhghairbhe, plural adhgharbha, comparative adhghairbhe)
- very rough
Declension
editDeclension of adhgharbh
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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
editIrish mutation | |||
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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
edit- 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