badhbh

Irish

FWOTD – 6 May 2014

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish badb (“crow, witch”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠəivˠ/

Noun

badhbh f (genitive singular baidhbhe, nominative plural badhbha)

  1. war-goddess
  2. vulture or other ravenous bird
  3. a scold or curser
  4. a female fairy said to be attached to certain families and to foretell death, appearing as a hooded crow
  5. (obsolete) hooded crow
    For quotations using this term, see Citations:badhbh.

Declension

Declension of badhbh (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative badhbh badhbha
vocative a bhadhbh a bhadhbha
genitive baidhbhe badhbh
dative badhbh
baidhbh (archaic, dialectal) 		badhbha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bhadhbh na badhbha
genitive na baidhbhe na mbadhbh
dative leis an mbadhbh
leis an mbaidhbh (archaic, dialectal)
don bhadhbh
don bhaidhbh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na badhbha

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • badhbh chaointe (“banshee”)
  • badhbh ghríofa (“griffon vulture”)
  • badhbha (“martial, warlike”, adjective)

Descendants

  • → English: bibe
  • → Yola: bow

Mutation

Mutated forms of badhbh
radical lenition eclipsis
badhbh bhadhbh mbadhbh

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “badhbh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “badb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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