urbhaidh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airbaid (“bane, harm, destruction; evil, malice”).

Noun

urbhaidh f (genitive singular urbhadha, nominative plural urbhadha)

1. (literary) bane, destruction

Declension

Declension of urbhaidh

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urbhaidh urbhadha Vocative a urbhaidh a urbhadha Genitive urbhadha urbhadha Dative urbhaidh urbhadha

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an urbhaidh na hurbhadha Genitive na hurbhadha na n-urbhadha Dative leis an urbhaidh don urbhaidh leis na hurbhadha

Related terms

• urbhadhach (“baneful, destructive”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urbhaidh	n-urbhaidh	hurbhaidh	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), “airbaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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