ábharthacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adbardacht (“materiality”). By surface analysis, ábhartha (“material, relevant”) +‎ -acht (nominal suffix).

Noun

ábharthacht f (genitive singular ábharthachta)

1. relevance, relevancy, materiality, pertinence

Declension

Declension of ábharthacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ábharthacht vocative a ábharthacht genitive ábharthachta dative ábharthacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ábharthacht genitive na hábharthachta dative leis an ábharthacht don ábharthacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of ábharthacht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ábharthacht	n-ábharthacht	hábharthacht	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) “ábharthacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbardacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ábharthacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ábharthacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025