badbda

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• bodbda, badbaide, bodbada

Etymology

From Old Irish bodbdae. By surface analysis, Badb (goddess of battle and death) +‎ -da (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

badbda

1. appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal

Descendants

• Irish: badhbha

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
badbda	badbda pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbadbda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “badbda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language