eabhadh

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish ébad.

Noun

eabhadh m (genitive singular eabhaidh, nominative plural)

1. aspen
2. the letter E in the Ogham alphabet

Declension

Declension of eabhadh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative eabhadh vocative a eabhaidh genitive eabhaidh dative eabhadh forms with the definite article singular nominative an t-eabhadh genitive an eabhaidh dative leis an eabhadh don eabhadh

Synonyms

• eadhadh

Mutation

Mutated forms of eabhadh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eabhadh	n-eabhadh	heabhadh	t-eabhadh

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