adhfhuar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adúar, adḟúar (“very cold”), from ad + úar (“cold”) (modern fuar).

Adjective

adhfhuar (genitive singular masculine adhfhuair, genitive singular feminine adhfhuaire, plural adhfhuara, comparative adhfhuaire)

1. very cold

Declension

Declension of adhfhuar

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	adhfhuar	adhfhuar	adhfhuara
Vocative	adhfhuair		adhfhuara
Genitive		adhfhuaire	adhfhuara	adhfhuar
Dative	adhfhuar	adhfhuar; adhfhuair (archaic)	adhfhuara
Comparative	níos adhfhuaire
Superlative	is adhfhuaire

Related terms

• adhfhuaire f (“extreme coldness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhfhuar	n-adhfhuar	hadhfhuar	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) “adhfhuar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adúar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language