urbhaidh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airbaid (“bane, harm, destruction; evil, malice”).

Noun

urbhaidh f (genitive singular urbhadha, nominative plural urbhadha)

1. (literary) bane, destruction

Declension

Declension of urbhaidh (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative urbhaidh urbhadha vocative a urbhaidh a urbhadha genitive urbhadha urbhadha dative urbhaidh urbhadha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an urbhaidh na hurbhadha genitive na hurbhadha na n-urbhadha dative leis an urbhaidh don urbhaidh leis na hurbhadha

Related terms

• urbhadhach (“baneful, destructive”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of urbhaidh

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urbhaidh	n-urbhaidh	hurbhaidh	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

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urbhaidh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN