uafás

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish úathbás (“horror, terror”),[1] from Old Irish úath (“fear, horror, terror”) (modern fuath) + bás (“death”).

Pronunciation

Noun

uafás m (genitive singular uafáis, nominative plural uafáis)

  1. horror, terror
  2. astonishment, cause of astonishment
  3. vast or astonishing number or amount

Declension

Declension of uafás (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative uafás uafáis
vocative a uafáis a uafása
genitive uafáis uafás
dative uafás uafáis
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-uafás na huafáis
genitive an uafáis na n-uafás
dative leis an uafás
don uafás 		leis na huafáis

Derived terms

  • uafásach (“horrible, terrible; vast, astonishing”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uafás
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uafás n-uafás huafás t-uafás

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), “úathbás, úathfás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 52, page 28
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 168, page 86
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 10, page 8

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