Noun: aoibh
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | aoibh |
| Singular Genitive | aoibhe |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an aoibh |
| Singular Genitive | na haoibhe |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like aoibh
aeráid,
aibhléis,
aimhréidh,
aincis,
ainglis,
aispeist,
aithris,
anailís,
antaigin,
antasubstaint,
aoibh,
astraláib,
bail,
baint,
beiril,
bithcheimic,
bithmhais,
bleib,
braich,
broinn, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Irish oíph, oíb (“semblance, appearance, beauty”), from Proto-Celtic *oɸibā (“beauty; appearance”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁opi-bʰeh₂-, a compound of the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”) prefixed with *h₁opi-. Cognate with Sanskrit अभिभा (abhibhā, “inauspicious omen”).
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