ábhartha

Irish

Alternative forms

• ábharthach, adhbhardha

Etymology

From Old Irish adbarda (“material, physical”). By surface analysis, ábhar (“matter, material; makings, potential qualities; cause, reason; subject, topic; object”) +‎ -tha.

Adjective

ábhartha

1. material
   1. relevant, germane
   2. physical; substantive

Derived terms

• ábharthacht f (“relevance”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ábhartha

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ábhartha	n-ábhartha	hábhartha	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ábhartha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbarda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ábhartha”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ábhartha”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025