urbhadhach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airbadach (“baneful, destructive, harmful; grieved, distressed”), from airbaid (“bane, harm, destruction; evil, malice”). By surface analysis, urbhaidh (“bane, destruction”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

urbhadhach (genitive singular masculine urbhadhaigh, genitive singular feminine urbhadhaí, plural urbhadhacha, comparative urbhadhaí)

1. (literary) baneful, destructive

Declension

Declension of urbhadhach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	urbhadhach	urbhadhach	urbhadhacha
Vocative	urbhadhaigh		urbhadhacha
Genitive		urbhadhaí	urbhadhacha	urbhadhach
Dative	urbhadhach	urbhadhach; urbhadhaigh (archaic)	urbhadhacha
Comparative	níos urbhadhaí
Superlative	is urbhadhaí

Mutation

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

References

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urbhadhach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN