Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish airbe (“hedge, fence, paling”), verbal noun of ar·fen (“erects a fence before”).
Noun
airbhe f (genitive singular airbheadh, nominative plural airbheadha)
- (literary) fence, hedge
Declension
Declension of airbhe (irregular)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of airbhe
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| airbhe
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n-airbhe
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hairbhe
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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.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airbhe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airbe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language