airbhe

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airbe (“hedge, fence, paling”), verbal noun of ar·fen (“erects a fence before”).

Noun

airbhe f (genitive singular airbheadh, nominative plural airbheadha)

1. (literary) fence, hedge

Declension

Declension of airbhe (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative airbhe airbheadha vocative a airbhe a airbheadha genitive airbheadh airbheadh dative airbhe airbheadha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an airbhe na hairbheadha genitive na hairbheadh na n-airbheadh dative leis an airbhe don airbhe leis na hairbheadha

Mutation

Mutated forms of airbhe

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airbhe	n-airbhe	hairbhe	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airbhe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airbe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language