esbae

Old Irish

From ess- +‎ báe (“benefit, use”).

esbae m

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	esbae	esbae^L	esbai^L
Vocative	esbai	esbae^L	esbu
Accusative	esbae^N	esbae^L	esbu^H
Genitive	esbai^L	esbae^L	esbae^N
Dative	esbu^L	esbaib	esbaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *esbae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
esbae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-esbae

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