badbda

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• bodbda, badbaide, bodbada

Etymology

From Old Irish bodbdae. By surface analysis, Badb (goddess of battle and death) +‎ -da (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

badbda

1. appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal

Descendants

• Irish: badhbha

Mutation

Mutation of badbda

radical	lenition	nasalization
badbda	badbda pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbadbda

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

Further reading

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