adhfhuafar
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish adúathmar, adḟúathmar (“very awful, terrible”), from adúath (“great dread, horror; monster”) + -mar; synchronically adhfhuath (“horror”) + -mhar.
Adjective
adhfhuafar (genitive singular masculine adhfhuafair, genitive singular feminine adhfhuafaire, plural adhfhuafara, comparative adhfhuafaire)
Declension
Declension of adhfhuafar
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | adhfhuafar | adhfhuafar | adhfhuafara | |
Vocative | adhfhuafair | adhfhuafara | ||
Genitive | adhfhuafare | adhfhuafara | adhfhuafar | |
Dative | adhfhuafar | adhfhuafar; adhfhuafair (archaic) |
adhfhuafara | |
Comparative | níos adhfhuafare | |||
Superlative | is adhfhuafare |
Related terms
- adhfhuafaireacht f, adhfhuathmhaire f (“horror, abomination”)
- adhfhuathaigh (“dread, abhor”, verb)
- adhfhuath m (“horror”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
adhfhuafar | n-adhfhuafar | hadhfhuafar | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhfhuafar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adúathmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “macabre”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024