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Irish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish edad.
Noun
eadhadh m (genitive singular eadhaidh)
- Synonym of eabhadh (“aspen; the letter E in the Ogham alphabet”)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| eadhadh
|
n-eadhadh
|
headhadh
|
t-eadhadh
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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) “eadhadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “edad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language