subhachas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish subachus. By surface analysis, subhach +‎ -as.

Noun

subhachas m (genitive singular subhachais)

1. gladness, mirth, joy, joyfulness, pleasure; cheerfulness, merriness

Declension

Declension of subhachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative subhachas vocative a shubhachais genitive subhachais dative subhachas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an subhachas genitive an tsubhachais dative leis an subhachas don subhachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of subhachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
subhachas	shubhachas after an, tsubhachas	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

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “suḃaċas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 701
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “subachus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “subhachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN