eadhadh

Irish

Alternative forms

• eadha

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish edad.

Noun

eadhadh m (genitive singular eadhaidh)

1. Synonym of eabhadh (“aspen; the letter E in the Ogham alphabet”)

Declension

Declension of eadhadh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative eadhadh vocative a eadhaidh genitive eadhaidh dative eadhadh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-eadhadh genitive an eadhaidh dative leis an eadhadh don eadhadh

Mutation

Mutated forms of eadhadh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eadhadh	n-eadhadh	headhadh	t-eadhadh

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