badb

See also: Badb

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• (early) bodb

Etymology

From Badb, the name of a war goddess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baðβ]

Noun

badb f (genitive baidb)

1. hooded crow
2. witch

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	BadbL	—	—
Vocative	BadbL	—	—
Accusative	BaidbN	—	—
Genitive	Baidbe	—	—
Dative	BaidbL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: badhbh
• Scottish Gaelic: badhbh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
badb	badb pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbadb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “badb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language