abhlach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ablach (“having apple-trees”, adjective), from aball (“apple”) (modern úll) + -ach.

Adjective

abhlach (genitive singular masculine abhlaigh, genitive singular feminine abhlaí, plural abhlacha)

1. of (many) apple trees

Declension

Declension of abhlach

Positive	singular	plural
masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	abhlach	abhlach	abhlacha
vocative	abhlaigh	abhlacha
genitive	abhlaí	abhlacha	abhlach
dative	abhlach	abhlach; abhlaigh (archaic)	abhlacha
Comparative	níos abhlaí
Superlative	is abhlaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of abhlach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
abhlach	n-abhlach	habhlach	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “abhlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ablach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language