afost
Middle Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Biblical Hebrew אוּפָז (ʾûp̄āz, “Uphaz”), a region mentioned in the Bible as famous for its gold.
Noun
editafost m
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “afost”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language