From Old Irish acarb, adgarb (“very rough, very fierce”), from ad + garb (compare modern garbh (“rough”)).
adhgharbh (genitive singular masculine adhghairbh, genitive singular feminine adhghairbhe, plural adhgharbha, comparative adhghairbhe)
singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | adhgharbh | adhgharbh | adhgharbha | |
vocative | adhghairbh | adhgharbha | ||
genitive | adhghairbhe | adhgharbha | adhgharbh | |
dative | adhgharbh | adhgharbh; adhghairbh (archaic) |
adhgharbha | |
Comparative | níos adhghairbhe | |||
Superlative | is adhghairbhe |
radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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adhgharbh | n-adhgharbh | hadhgharbh | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.