Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish anbáthad (“dread, fear, surprise, panic”).
Noun
anbhá m (genitive singular anbhá)
- consternation, dismay, panic, desperation
Declension
Declension of anbhá (fourth declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
- anbhách (“fearful, panicky”, adjective)
Mutation
Mutated forms of anbhá
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| anbhá
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n-anbhá
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hanbhá
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t-anbhá
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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) “anbhá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anbáthad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “panic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025