ághdha

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ágda, ágdae (“warlike, contentious”), from ág (“fight, battle, contest; prowess, valour”). By surface analysis, ágh (“battle, contest; prowess, valour; danger, peril; fearfulness”) +‎ -dha.

Adjective

ághdha

1. (literary) warlike

   Synonyms: ánrata, éaglannach, níothach

Mutation

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

References

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