áibhle

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aidble.[2] By surface analysis, ábhal +‎ -e.

Noun

áibhle f (genitive singular áibhle)

  1. (literary) vastness, greatness
Declension
Declension of áibhle

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative áibhle
Vocative a áibhle
Genitive áibhle
Dative áibhle

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an áibhle
Genitive na háibhle
Dative leis an áibhle

don áibhle

Synonyms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

áibhle

  1. inflection of ábhal:
    1. feminine genitive singular
    2. comparative degree

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
áibhle n-áibhle háibhle not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “aidhbhle”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aidble”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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