urbhadhach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airbadach (“baneful, destructive, harmful; grieved, distressed”), from airbaid (“bane, harm, destruction; evil, malice”). By surface analysis, urbhaidh (“bane, destruction”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

urbhadhach (genitive singular masculine urbhadhaigh, genitive singular feminine urbhadhaí, plural urbhadhacha, comparative urbhadhaí)

(literary) baneful, destructive

Declension

Declension of *urbhadhach*
	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	urbhadhach	urbhadhach	urbhadhacha
vocative	urbhadhaigh	urbhadhach	urbhadhacha
genitive	urbhadhaigh	urbhadhaí	urbhadhacha	urbhadhach
dative	urbhadhach	urbhadhach; urbhadhaigh (archaic)	urbhadhacha
Comparative	níos urbhadhaí
Superlative	is urbhadhaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of *urbhadhach*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urbhadhach	n-urbhadhach	hurbhadhach	not applicable

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

References

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