ábhal

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish adbal[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

ábhal (genitive singular masculine ábhail, genitive singular feminine áibhle, plural ábhala, comparative áibhle)

  1. great, immense, tremendous, vast

Declension

Declension of ábhal
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative ábhal ábhal ábhala
vocative ábhail ábhala
genitive áibhle ábhala ábhal
dative ábhal ábhal;
ábhail (archaic) 		ábhala
Comparative níos áibhle
Superlative is áibhle

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ábhal
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ábhal n-ábhal hábhal not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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