anabaí

Irish

Alternative forms

• anaibidh

Etymology

From Old Irish anapaig (“unripe”). By surface analysis, an- +‎ aibí.

Adjective

anabaí

1. unripe, immature
2. premature (of death, birth)

Synonyms

• (premature): roimh am

Derived terms

• anabaíocht (“immaturity; miscarriage; newness”)
• beir go hanabaí (“miscarry”, verb)
• breith anabaí (“abortion, mishap”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anabaí	n-anabaí	hanabaí	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) “anabaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “immature”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “premature”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “untimely”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anapaig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language