écubus

Old Irish

Etymology

From é- +‎ cubus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈeːɡuβus]

Noun

écubus m

1. want of conscience, unscrupulousness
2. (law) bad faith, fraud, culpable remissness

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	écubus	—	—
vocative	écubus	—	—
accusative	écubusN	—	—
genitive	écubsoH, écubsaH	—	—
dative	écubusL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Antonyms

• cubus

Descendants

• Irish: éagúis

Mutation

Mutation of écubus

radical	lenition	nasalization
écubus (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-écubus

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

Further reading

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