gábh

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish gábud.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

gábh m (genitive singular gáibh or gábha, nominative plural gábha or gábhanna)

  1. danger, peril
    Synonyms: baol, contúirt, dainséar

Declension

As a first-declension noun:

Declension of gábh (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gábh gábha
vocative a gháibh a ghábha
genitive gáibh gábh
dative gábh gábha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gábh na gábha
genitive an gháibh na ngábh
dative leis an ngábh
don ghábh 		leis na gábha

As a third-declension noun:

Declension of gábh (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gábh gábhanna
vocative a ghábh a ghábhanna
genitive gábha gábhanna
dative gábh gábhanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gábh na gábhanna
genitive an ghábha na ngábhanna
dative leis an ngábh
don ghábh 		leis na gábhanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of gábh
radical lenition eclipsis
gábh ghábh ngábh

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

References

  1. ^ “gábh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gábud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 122
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 132, page 51
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 425, page 137

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