adhfhuath

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhuath

Etymology

From Old Irish adúath, adḟúath (“great dread, horror; monster”), from ad- + úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing”).

Noun

adhfhuath m (genitive singular adhfhuatha)

1. horror

Declension

Declension of adhfhuath (third declension, no plural)

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

Related terms

• adhfhuafaireacht f, adhfhuathmhaire f (“horror, abomination”)
• adhfhuafar (“horrible, abominable”, adjective)
• adhfhuathaigh (“dread, abhor”, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhfhuath

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhfhuath	n-adhfhuath	hadhfhuath	t-adhfhuath

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