airbhe

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airbe (“hedge, fence, paling”), verbal noun of ar·fen (“erects a fence before”).

Noun

airbhe f (genitive singular airbheadh, nominative plural airbheadha)

1. (literary) fence, hedge

Declension

Declension of airbhe

Irregular

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative airbhe airbheadha Vocative a airbhe a airbheadha Genitive airbheadh airbheadh Dative airbhe airbheadha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an airbhe na hairbheadha Genitive na hairbheadh na n-airbheadh Dative leis an airbhe don airbhe leis na hairbheadha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airbhe	n-airbhe	hairbhe	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) “airbhe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airbe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language