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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
subachus	ṡubachus	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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