Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish adúath, adḟúath (“great dread, horror; monster”), from ad- + úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing”).
Noun
adhfhuath m (genitive singular adhfhuatha)
- horror
Declension
Declension of adhfhuath (third declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of adhfhuath
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| adhfhuath
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n-adhfhuath
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hadhfhuath
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t-adhfhuath
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhfhuath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adúath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language