esbae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

espe, espae

Etymology

From ess- +‎ báe (“benefit, use”).

Noun

esbae m

uselessness, folly

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	esbae	esbae^L	esbai^L
vocative	esbai	esbae^L	esbu
accusative	esbae^N	esbae^L	esbu^H
genitive	esbai^L	esbae^L	esbae^N
dative	esbu^L	esbaib	esbaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: espa
- Irish: easpa

Mutation

Mutation of *esbae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
esbae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	esbae	n-esbae

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

Further reading

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