deabhaidh

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish debuith (“strife, contention”).[3]

Noun

deabhaidh f (genitive singular deafa, nominative plural deafa)

  1. conflict, strife
Declension
Declension of deabhaidh (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative deabhaidh deafa
vocative a dheabhaidh a dheafa
genitive deafa deafa
dative deabhaidh deafa
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an deabhaidh na deafa
genitive na deafa na ndeafa
dative leis an deabhaidh
don deabhaidh 		leis na deafa

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

deabhaidh

  1. genitive singular of deabhadh

Mutation

Mutated forms of deabhaidh
radical lenition eclipsis
deabhaidh dheabhaidh ndeabhaidh

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “debuith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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