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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish úabar.
Noun
uabhar m (genitive singular uabhair)
- pride, arrogance
- wounded pride
- spiritedness, exuberance
- (act of) frolicking; frolicksomeness
- rankness, luxuriance
- eeriness, feeling of loneliness
- open-mouthedness, astonishment
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
|
| uabhar
|
n-uabhar
|
huabhar
|
not applicable
|
| 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) “uabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úabar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language