ardbhaile

Irish

Etymology

From ard- +‎ baile.

Noun

ardbhaile m (genitive singular ardbhaile, nominative plural ardbhailte)

1. chief town, centre

Declension

Declension of ardbhaile (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ardbhaile ardbhailte vocative a ardbhaile a ardbhailte genitive ardbhaile ardbhailte dative ardbhaile ardbhailte forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ardbhaile na hardbhailte genitive an ardbhaile na n-ardbhailte dative leis an ardbhaile don ardbhaile leis na hardbhailte

Synonyms

• (chief town): ceannbhaile, príomhbhaile

Mutation

Mutated forms of ardbhaile

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ardbhaile	n-ardbhaile	hardbhaile	t-ardbhaile

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) “ardbhaile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN