Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish ebur, from Latin ebur.
Noun
eabhar m or f (genitive singular eabhair or eabhra or eabhaire)
- ivory
Declension
Declension of eabhar (first declension, no plural)
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- as feminine noun
Declension of eabhar (third declension, no plural)
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Declension of eabhar (second declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of eabhar
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| eabhar
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n-eabhar
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heabhar
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t-eabhar
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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) “eabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ebur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eabhar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “eabhar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025