Badb
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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *bodwā (“fight”), from the same root as *boudi (“victory”), compare Old Irish búaid (“victory”), Welsh budd (“profit”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Badb f
- (Irish mythology) A goddess of battle and death, often appearing in the form of a hooded crow.
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | BadbL | — | — |
| vocative | BadbL | — | — |
| accusative | BaidbN | — | — |
| genitive | Baidbe | — | — |
| dative | BaidbL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
- badb f (“hooded crow; scald-crow”)
- badbda (“appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal”, adjective)
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| Badb | Badb pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
mBadb |
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), “badb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language