ághasta

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ágasta (“to be feared, fearful, dreadful”) (compare ad·ágathar (“fears, dreads, stands in awe of”)).

Adjective

ághasta

1. (literary) fearful, dreadful

Mutation

Mutated forms of ághasta

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ághasta	n-ághasta	hághasta	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ághasta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ágasta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language