abach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish apach n (“corpse, remains; entrails”).

Noun

abach m (genitive singular abaigh)

1. (literary) entrails

Declension

Declension of abach (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative abach vocative a abaigh genitive abaigh dative abach forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-abach genitive an abaigh dative leis an abach don abach

Derived terms

• abach a dhéanamh ar (“to botch”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of abach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
abach	n-abach	habach	t-abach

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