fuafar
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- fuathmhar (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish fúathmar (“hateful, odious”), from Old Irish úathmar (“dreadful; terrifying”). By surface analysis, fuath (“hate, hatred”) + -mhar (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]fuafar (genitive singular masculine fuafair, genitive singular feminine fuafaire, plural fuafara, comparative fuafaire)
Declension
[edit]Declension of fuafar
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | fuafar | fhuafar | fuafara; fhuafara² | |
Vocative | fhuafair | fuafara | ||
Genitive | fuafare | fuafara | fuafar | |
Dative | fuafar; fhuafar¹ |
fhuafar; fhuafair (archaic) |
fuafara; fhuafara² | |
Comparative | níos fuafare | |||
Superlative | is fuafare |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Synonyms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
fuafar | fhuafar | bhfuafar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuafar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fúathmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úathmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language