fuaimiúil
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fuaim (“sound”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]fuaimiúil (genitive singular masculine fuaimiúil, genitive singular feminine fuaimiúla, plural fuaimiúla, comparative fuaimiúla)
- acoustic
- Synonym of fuaimneach (“sounding, resounding, resonant”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of fuaimiúil
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | fuaimiúil | fhuaimiúil | fuaimiúla; fhuaimiúla² | |
| Vocative | fhuaimiúil | fuaimiúla | ||
| Genitive | fuaimiúla | fuaimiúla | fuaimiúil | |
| Dative | fuaimiúil; fhuaimiúil¹ |
fhuaimiúil | fuaimiúla; fhuaimiúla² | |
| Comparative | níos fuaimiúla | |||
| Superlative | is fuaimiúla | |||
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 |
| fuaimiúil | fhuaimiúil | bhfuaimiúil |
| 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) “fuaimiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuaimiúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “fuaimiúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024