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

"abach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“apach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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