fadhb

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish fodb, odb, from Old Irish odb (“knot in a tree”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fˠəibˠ/

Noun

fadhb f (genitive singular faidhbe, nominative plural fadhbanna)

  1. knot (in timber)
  2. callosity
  3. lump (from blow); lump-raising blow
  4. lumpy object
  5. knotty problem, poser

Declension

Declension of fadhb (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fadhb fadhbanna
vocative a fhadhb a fhadhbanna
genitive faidhbe fadhbanna
dative fadhb
faidhb (archaic, dialectal) 		fadhbanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhadhb na fadhbanna
genitive na faidhbe na bhfadhbanna
dative leis an bhfadhb
leis an bhfaidhb (archaic, dialectal)
don fhadhb
don fhaidhb (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na fadhbanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fadhb
radical lenition eclipsis
fadhb fhadhb bhfadhb

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

References

  1. ^ “fadhb”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “odb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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