adhgharbh
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish acarb, adgarb (“very rough, very fierce”), from ad + garb (compare modern garbh (“rough”)).
Adjective
[edit]adhgharbh (genitive singular masculine adhghairbh, genitive singular feminine adhghairbhe, plural adhgharbha, comparative adhghairbhe)
- very rough
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | adhgharbh | adhgharbh | adhgharbha | |
| vocative | adhghairbh | adhgharbha | ||
| genitive | adhghairbhe | adhgharbha | adhgharbh | |
| dative | adhgharbh | adhgharbh; adhghairbh (archaic) |
adhgharbha | |
| Comparative | níos adhghairbhe | |||
| Superlative | is adhghairbhe | |||
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| adhgharbh | n-adhgharbh | hadhgharbh | 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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhgharbh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “acarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language