Badb

See also: badb

Old Irish

FWOTD – 30 April 2019

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bodwā (fight), from the same root as *boudi (victory), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰówdʰi (victory); compare Old Irish búaid (victory), Welsh budd (profit).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baðv/

Proper noun

Badb f

  1. (Irish mythology) A goddess of battle and death, often appearing in the form of a hooded crow.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative BadbL
Vocative BadbL
Accusative BaidbN
Genitive Baidbe
Dative BaidbL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

  • badb f (hooded crow; scald-crow)
  • badbda (appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal, adjective)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Badb Badb
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
mBadb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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