Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish úabar.
Noun
uabhar m (genitive singular uabhair)
- pride, arrogance
- wounded pride
- spiritedness, exuberance
- (act of) frolicking; frolicksomeness
- rankness, luxuriance
- eeriness, feeling of loneliness
- open-mouthedness, astonishment
Declension
Declension of uabhar (first declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of uabhar
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| uabhar
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n-uabhar
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huabhar
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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.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uabhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úabar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language