écubus

Old Irish

Etymology

From é- +‎ cubus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈeːɡuβus]

Noun

écubus m

want of conscience, unscrupulousness
(law) bad faith, fraud, culpable remissness

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	écubus	—	—
vocative	écubus	—	—
accusative	écubus^N	—	—
genitive	écubso^H, écubsa^H	—	—
dative	écubus^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Antonyms

cubus

Descendants

Irish: éagúis

Mutation

Mutation of *écubus*
radical	lenition	nasalization
écubus (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	écubus	n-écubus

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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