abach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish apach n (“corpse, remains; entrails”).

Noun

abach m (genitive singular abaigh)

(literary) entrails

Declension

Declension of abach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	abach
Vocative	a abaigh
Genitive	abaigh
Dative	abach

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an t-abach
Genitive	an abaigh
Dative	leis an abach don abach

Derived terms

abach a dhéanamh ar (“to botch”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
abach	n-abach	habach	t-abach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “abach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “apach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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