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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish úathbás (“horror”) (compare Irish uafás).
Noun
uabhas m (genitive singular uabhais, plural uabhasan)
- atrocity, enormity, consternation, dismay, dread, horror, monster
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “uabhas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathbás, úathfás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language