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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish anbáthad (“dread, fear, surprise, panic”).
Noun
anbhá m (genitive singular anbhá)
- consternation, dismay, panic, desperation
Declension
Derived terms
- anbhách (“fearful, panicky”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| anbhá
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n-anbhá
|
hanbhá
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t-anbhá
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anbhá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “anbáthad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “panic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024