áibhle

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aidble.[2] By surface analysis, ábhal +‎ -e.

Noun

áibhle f (genitive singular áibhle)

  1. (literary) vastness, greatness
Declension
Declension of áibhle (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative áibhle
vocative a áibhle
genitive áibhle
dative áibhle
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an áibhle
genitive na háibhle
dative leis an áibhle
don áibhle
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

áibhle

  1. inflection of ábhal:
    1. feminine genitive singular
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutated forms of áibhle
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
áibhle n-áibhle háibhle 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. ^ “aidhbhle”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aidble”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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