abhlach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ablach (“having apple-trees”, adjective), from aball (“apple”) (modern úll) + -ach.

Adjective

abhlach (genitive singular masculine abhlaigh, genitive singular feminine abhlaí, plural abhlacha)

1. of (many) apple trees

Declension

Declension of abhlach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	abhlach	abhlach	abhlacha
vocative	abhlaigh		abhlacha
genitive		abhlaí	abhlacha	abhlach
dative	abhlach	abhlach; abhlaigh (archaic)	abhlacha
Comparative	níos abhlaí
Superlative	is abhlaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of abhlach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
abhlach	n-abhlach	habhlach	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) “abhlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ablach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language