eabhartha
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish éburda, from ebur (“ivory”). By surface analysis, eabhar (“ivory”) + -tha (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]eabhartha
- ivory (of colour)
- Synonym: ar dhath an eabhair
Related terms
[edit]- dath an eabhair m (“ivory”) (colour)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| eabhartha | n-eabhartha | heabhartha | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eabhartha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éburda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eabhartha”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “eabhartha”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025