Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish adbardacht (“materiality”). By surface analysis, ábhartha (“material, relevant”) + -acht (nominal suffix).
Noun
ábharthacht f (genitive singular ábharthachta)
- relevance, relevancy, materiality, pertinence
Declension
Declension of ábharthacht (third declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of ábharthacht
radical |
eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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ábharthacht
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n-ábharthacht
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hábharthacht
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ábharthacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adbardacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ábharthacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “ábharthacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025