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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish aub, from Proto-Celtic *abū (compare Welsh afon), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”). The form abhainn was originally the dative singular of abha, but is now widely used as the nominative as well.
Pronunciation
Noun
abhainn f (genitive singular abhann or aibhne, nominative plural aibhneacha or aibhne)
- river
Níl aon abhainn san oileán.- There’s no river on the island.
Dá dtéiteá go Gaillimh inné, d’fhéadfá a dhul isteach an abhainn go réidh, mar nach raibh aon tsruth mór.- If you had gone to Galway yesterday, you would have easily been able to go up the river, since there wasn’t a very strong current.
Bhí an abhainn reoite.- The river was frozen.
- bruach na haibhne ― the riverbank
Bhí na haibhneacha uilig reoite.- All the rivers were frozen.
Dhá mbeadh an t-airgead againn, ghabhfadh muid do haibhneacha Chill Airne.- If we had the money, we would go to the rivers of Killarney.
Declension
- Standard
- Nonstandard
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| abhainn
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n-abhainn
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habhainn
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aḃa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 2
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18
Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish aub, from Proto-Celtic *abū (compare Welsh afon), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”). The form abhainn was originally the dative singular of abha, but is now widely used as the nominative/accusative as well.
Pronunciation
Noun
abhainn f (genitive singular aibhne, plural aibhnichean)
- river, stream
Mutation
See also
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “abhainn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language