fuarchúiseach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fuarchúiseach (genitive singular masculine fuarchúisigh, genitive singular feminine fuarchúisí, plural ~ar, comparative fuarchúisí)
- indifferent (not caring), apathetic, phlegmatic (not easily excited to action)
- cool (unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical), frigid (chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive)
- imperturbable, unresponsive, unemotional, impassive (having or revealing no emotion)
Declension
[edit]Declension of fuarchúiseach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | fuarchúiseach | fhuarchúiseach | fuarchúiseacha; fhuarchúiseacha² | |
| Vocative | fhuarchúisigh | fuarchúiseacha | ||
| Genitive | fuarchúisí | fuarchúiseacha | fuarchúiseach | |
| Dative | fuarchúiseach; fhuarchúiseach¹ |
fhuarchúiseach; fhuarchúisigh (archaic) |
fuarchúiseacha; fhuarchúiseacha² | |
| Comparative | níos fuarchúisí | |||
| Superlative | is fuarchúisí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| fuarchúiseach | fhuarchúiseach | bhfuarchúiseach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “fuarchúiseach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “fuar-ċúiseaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuarchúiseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN