adhgharbh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish acarb (“very rough, very fierce”),[1] from ad- + garb. By surface analysis, ath- +‎ garbh (“rough”). Doublet of agarbh.

Adjective

adhgharbh (genitive singular masculine adhghairbh, genitive singular feminine adhghairbhe, plural adhgharbha, comparative adhghairbhe)

  1. very rough

Declension

Declension of adhgharbh
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative adhgharbh adhgharbh adhgharbha
vocative adhghairbh adhgharbha
genitive adhghairbhe adhgharbha adhgharbh
dative adhgharbh adhgharbh;
adhghairbh (archaic) 		adhgharbha
Comparative níos adhghairbhe
Superlative is adhghairbhe

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhgharbh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhgharbh n-adhgharbh hadhgharbh 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

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

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