deabhadh

See also: dèabhadh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish debuith (“strife, contention”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

deabhadh m (genitive singular deabhaidh)

  1. hurry, haste
    Synonyms: deifir, dithneas
    Tá deabhadh an tsaoil uirthi. ― She’s in a desperate hurry.

Declension

Declension of deabhadh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative deabhadh
vocative a dheabhaidh
genitive deabhaidh
dative deabhadh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an deabhadh
genitive an deabhaidh
dative leis an deabhadh
don deabhadh

Derived terms

  • le deabhadh (“in a hurry”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of deabhadh
radical lenition eclipsis
deabhadh dheabhadh ndeabhadh

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), “debuith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 deibed (‘haste, hurry’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  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, § 202, page 102

Further reading

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