subachus

Old Irish

Etymology

From subach (“cheerful, merry, happy”) +‎ -us, from subae (“joy”).

Noun

subachus m

1. cheerfulness, gladness, joy, mirth
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1130

     sobraig a sobria .i. ōn subhachus

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	subachus	—	—
vocative	subachus	—	—
accusative	subachusN	—	—
genitive	subachsoH, subachsaH	—	—
dative	subachusL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: subachus
  • Irish: subhachas

Mutation

Mutation of subachus

radical	lenition	nasalization
subachus	ṡubachus	unchanged

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

References

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