uath

• IPA^(key): /uə(h)/

From Old Irish úath (“fear”).^[1] Doublet of fuath (“hatred”)).

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. (literary) horrible thing, horror

From Old Irish úath (“the name of the letter H”).^[2]

uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uatha)

1. name of the Ogham letter ᚆ (h)

• (whitethorn): sceach

uath m (genitive singular uatha, nominative plural uathanna)

1. alternative form of fuath (“form, shape; phantom, spectre”)

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. alternative form of fuath (“hate, hatred”)

uath

1. alternative form of uafar (“dreadful, horrible”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “uath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “uaṫ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 772

• IPA^(key): /uəh/

From Old Irish úath (“fear, horror, terror; a horrible or terrible thing, horrible creature, spectre, phantom”).

uath m (genitive singular uatha)

1. dread, terror

From Old Irish úath (“the name of the letter H”).

uath m (genitive singular uatha, plural uathan)

1. (obsolete) the letter H in the Gaelic alphabet

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