aerbhac

Irish

Etymology

From aer- (“air”) +‎ bac (“barrier”).

Noun

aerbhac m (genitive singular aerbhaic, nominative plural aerbhaic)

1. air-lock

Declension

Declension of aerbhac (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aerbhac aerbhaic vocative a aerbhaic a aerbhaca genitive aerbhaic aerbhac dative aerbhac aerbhaic forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aerbhac na haerbhaic genitive an aerbhaic na n-aerbhac dative leis an aerbhac don aerbhac leis na haerbhaic

Mutation

Mutated forms of aerbhac

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aerbhac	n-aerbhac	haerbhac	t-aerbhac

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aerbhac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “airlock”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aerbhac”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm