dabhach

Irish
FWOTD – 27 December 2022

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish dabach (“large tub or vat with two handles; hollow, pit, pool; measure of land, portion of land”).

Pronunciation

Noun

dabhach f (genitive singular daibhche, nominative plural dabhcha or dabhacha) or
dabhach f (genitive singular dabhcha, nominative plural dabhchanna or daibhcheanna)

  1. vat, tub
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 62:
      tā n dauəx l̄ān lē fĭōl.
      Tá an dabhach lán le feoil. (conventional orthography)
      The vat is full of meat.
  2. deep waterhole; pool, pond
  3. holy well
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 62:
      xøniḱ myȷ nə šȧxt cȧmpĺ̥, cȧmpl̥̄ viḱ duəx, agəs dauəx ēnə.
      Chonaic muid na seacht teampaill, teampall Mhic Duach agus dabhach Éanna. (conventional orthography)
      We saw the seven churches, Mac Duagh’s church and Enda’s well.

Declension
Declension of dabhach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dabhach dabhcha
Vocative a dhabhach a dhabhcha
Genitive daibhche dabhcha
Dative dabhach
dabhaigh (archaic, dialectal)		 dabhcha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dabhach na dabhcha
Genitive na daibhche na ndabhcha
Dative leis an dabhach
leis an dabhaigh (archaic, dialectal)

don dabhach
don dabhaigh (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na dabhcha
Declension of dabhach

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dabhach dabhchanna
Vocative a dhabhach a dhabhchanna
Genitive dabhcha dabhchanna
Dative dabhach dabhchanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dabhach na dabhchanna
Genitive na dabhcha na ndabhchanna
Dative leis an dabhach

don dabhach

 leis na dabhchanna

Alternative plurals: dabhacha, daibhcheanna

Derived terms
  • dabhach éisc (“fish-pond”)
  • dabhach fholctha
  • dabhach lín (“flax-pond”)
  • dabhach tine (“round low-built fire”)
  • dabhchach
  • daibhchín

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dabhach dhabhach ndabhach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 143, page 56

Further reading
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