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:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative uafás uafáis
Vocative a uafáis a uafása
Genitive uafáis uafás
Dative uafás uafáis

Forms with the definite article:

Case 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
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
uafás n-uafás huafás t-uafás
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “úathbás, úathfás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 28
  3. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 8

Further reading
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