Badb

See also: badb

Old Irish

FWOTD – 30 April 2019

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bodwā (“fight”), from the same root as *boudi (“victory”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰówdʰi (“victory”); compare Old Irish búaid (“victory”), Welsh budd (“profit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baðβ]

Proper noun

Badb f

1. (Irish mythology) A goddess of battle and death, often appearing in the form of a hooded crow.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	BadbL	—	—
Vocative	BadbL	—	—
Accusative	BaidbN	—	—
Genitive	Baidbe	—	—
Dative	BaidbL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• badb f (“hooded crow; scald-crow”)
• badbda (“appertaining to war; Badb-like, deadly, fatal”, adjective)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Badb	Badb pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mBadb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “badb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language