uath

• IPA^(key): /uə(h)/

From Old Irish úath (“fear”).^[1] Doublet of fuath (“hatred”)).

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. (literary) horrible thing, horror

From Old Irish whitethorn.^[2]

uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uatha)

1. (literary) whitethorn, Crataegus monogyna

• (whitethorn): sceach

From Old Irish the name of the letter H.^[3]

uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uatha)

1. name of the Ogham letter ᚆ (h)

• (whitethorn): sceach

uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uathanna)

1. alternative form of fuath (“form, shape; phantom, spectre”)

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. alternative form of fuath (“hate, hatred”)

uath

1. alternative form of uafar (“dreadful, horrible”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “uaṫ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 772

• IPA^(key): /uəh/

From Old Irish úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing, horrible creature, spectre, phantom”).

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. dread, terror

From Old Irish úath (“whitethorn; the name of the letter H”).

uath m (genitive singular uatha, plural uathan)

1. (archaic) hawthorn
2. (obsolete) the letter H in the Gaelic alphabet

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language