cabhair

Irish

From Old Irish cobair (“help, assistance”).^[1]

cabhair f (genitive singular cabhrach or cabhartha)

As a fifth-declension noun:

Declension of cabhair (fifth declension, no plural)

bare forms
	singular
nominative	cabhair
vocative	a chabhair
genitive	cabhrach
dative	cabhair cabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an chabhair
genitive	na cabhrach
dative	leis an gcabhair leis an gcabhraigh (archaic, dialectal) don chabhair don chabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

As if it were a verbal noun:

Declension of cabhair (third declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an chabhair
genitive	na cabhartha
dative	leis an gcabhair don chabhair

As a second-declension noun (archaic):

Declension of cabhair (second declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an chabhair
genitive	na cabhra
dative	leis an gcabhair don chabhair

Mutated forms of *cabhair*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cabhair	chabhair	gcabhair

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cobair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 115, page 61
^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 114, page 22
^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, § 44b, page 4
^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 30, page 11
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 40, page 18