uath

See also: uath-, úath, and fuath

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uə(h)/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing, horrible creature, spectre, phantom”). Doublet of fuath (“hatred”).

Noun

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. (literary) horrible thing, horror

Declension

Declension of uath

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative uath Vocative a uath Genitive uatha Dative uath

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-uath Genitive an uatha Dative leis an uath don uath

Etymology 2

From Old Irish úath (“whitethorn; the name of the letter H”).

Noun

uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uatha)

1. (literary) whitethorn
2. name of the Ogham letter ᚆ (h)

Declension

Declension of uath

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative uath uatha Vocative a uath a uatha Genitive uatha uath Dative uath uatha

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uath na huatha Genitive an uatha na n-uath Dative leis an uath don uath leis na huatha

Synonyms

• (whitethorn): sceach

Etymology 3

Noun

uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uathanna)

1. Alternative form of fuath (“form, shape; phantom, spectre”)

Declension

Declension of uath

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative uath uathanna Vocative a uath a uathanna Genitive uatha uathanna Dative uath uathanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uath na huathanna Genitive an uatha na n-uathanna Dative leis an uath don uath leis na huathanna

Etymology 4

Noun

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. Alternative form of fuath (“hate, hatred”)

Declension

Declension of uath

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative uath Vocative a uath Genitive uatha Dative uath

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-uath Genitive an uatha Dative leis an uath don uath

Etymology 5

Adjective

uath

1. Alternative form of uafar (“dreadful, horrible”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uath	n-uath	huath	t-uath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 úath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “uaṫ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 772

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uəh/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing, horrible creature, spectre, phantom”).

Noun

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. dread, terror

Etymology 2

From Old Irish úath (“whitethorn; the name of the letter H”).

Noun

uath m (genitive singular uatha, plural uathan)

1. (archaic) hawthorn
2. (obsolete) the letter H in the Gaelic alphabet

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uath	n-uath	h-uath	t-uath
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), “uath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language