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deabhaidh

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish debuith (“strife, contention”).[3]

Noun edit

deabhaidh f (genitive singular deafa, nominative plural deafa)

  1. conflict, strife
Declension edit
Declension of deabhaidh

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative deabhaidh deafa
Vocative a dheabhaidh a dheafa
Genitive deafa deafa
Dative deabhaidh deafa

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an deabhaidh na deafa
Genitive na deafa na ndeafa
Dative leis an deabhaidh

don deabhaidh

leis na deafa

Further reading edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

deabhaidh

  1. genitive singular of deabhadh

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deabhaidh dheabhaidh ndeabhaidh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “debuith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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