agarbh

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish acarb (“very rough, very fierce”),[1] from ad- + garb. Doublet of adhgharbh.

Adjective

agarbh (genitive singular masculine agairbh, genitive singular feminine agairbhe, plural agarbha, comparative agairbhe)

  1. (literary) harsh, bitter

Declension

Declension of agarbh
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative agarbh agarbh agarbha
vocative agairbh agarbha
genitive agarbhe agarbha agarbh
dative agarbh agarbh;
agairbh (archaic) 		agarbha
Comparative níos agarbhe
Superlative is agarbhe

Mutation

Mutated forms of agarbh
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
agarbh n-agarbh hagarbh 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), “acarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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