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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish aidble.[2] By surface analysis, ábhal + -e.
Noun
áibhle f (genitive singular áibhle)
- (literary) vastness, greatness
Declension
Synonyms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
áibhle
- inflection of ábhal:
- feminine genitive singular
- comparative degree
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| áibhle
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n-áibhle
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háibhle
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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
- ^ “aidhbhle”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aidble”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language