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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish dubachas (“gloom, heaviness, sorrow, sadness”). By surface analysis, dubhach + -as.
Noun
dubhachas m (genitive singular dubhachais)
- gloom, sorrow
- Synonyms: duairceas, gruaim
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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dubhachas
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dhubhachas
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ndubhachas
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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) “dubhachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dubachas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish dubachas. By surface analysis, dubhach + -as.
Noun
dubhachas m (genitive dubhachais)
- Depression, dreariness, melancholy, sadness
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.