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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish marbtha (“mortal, deadly”).
Adjective
marfa
- Alternative form of maraithe
- Synonym of marfach (“deadly, fatal, lethal; killing; intense, distressing”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| marfa
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mharfa
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not applicable
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “marfa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “marbtha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “marfa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024