fadhb

Irish

From Middle Irish fodb, odb, from Old Irish odb (“knot in a tree”).^[2]

fadhb f (genitive singular faidhbe, nominative plural fadhbanna)

Declension of fadhb (second declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	fadhb	fadhbanna
vocative	a fhadhb	a fhadhbanna
genitive	faidhbe	fadhbanna
dative	fadhb faidhb (archaic, dialectal)	fadhbanna

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an fhadhb	na fadhbanna
genitive	na faidhbe	na bhfadhbanna
dative	leis an bhfadhb leis an bhfaidhb (archaic, dialectal) don fhadhb don fhaidhb (archaic, dialectal)	leis na fadhbanna

Mutated forms of *fadhb*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
fadhb	fhadhb	bhfadhb

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

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

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Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “faḋḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 413; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fadhb”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN