uafásach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish úathbásach (“terrible, dreadful”).[1] By surface analysis, uafás (“horror, terror”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈuː(h)ɑːsˠəx/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈuhæsˠa(x)/

Adjective

uafásach (genitive singular masculine uafásaigh, genitive singular feminine uafásaí, plural uafásacha, comparative uafásaí)

  1. horrible, terrible, dreadful
  2. vast, astonishing

Declension

Declension of uafásach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative uafásach uafásach uafásacha
vocative uafásaigh uafásacha
genitive uafásaí uafásacha uafásach
dative uafásach uafásach;
uafásaigh (archaic) 		uafásacha
Comparative níos uafásaí
Superlative is uafásaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of uafásach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uafásach n-uafásach huafásach 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), “úathbásach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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