Badb

See also: badb

Old Irish

FWOTD – 30 April 2019

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bodwā (“fight”), from the same root as *boudi (“victory”), compare Old Irish búaid (“victory”), Welsh budd (“profit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baðβ]

Proper noun

Badb f

1. (Irish mythology) A goddess of battle and death, often appearing in the form of a hooded crow.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	BadbL	—	—
vocative	BadbL	—	—
accusative	BaidbN	—	—
genitive	Baidbe	—	—
dative	BaidbL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

• badb f (“hooded crow; scald-crow”)
• badbda (“appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutation of Badb

radical	lenition	nasalization
Badb	Badb pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mBadb

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), “badb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language