Éabha

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Eua,[1] from Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Éabha f (genitive Éabha)

  1. (Abrahamism, biblical) Eve (the first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife)

Derived terms

  • Síol Éabha (“Eve's descendants, the human race”, literally “the seed of Eve”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Éabha
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
Éabha nÉabha hÉabha 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), “Eba, Eua”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.