adhfhuar
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish adúar, adḟúar (“very cold”), from ad + úar (“cold”) (modern fuar).
Adjective
[edit]adhfhuar (genitive singular masculine adhfhuair, genitive singular feminine adhfhuaire, plural adhfhuara, comparative adhfhuaire)
- very cold
Declension
[edit]Declension of adhfhuar
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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
[edit]- adhfhuaire f (“extreme coldness”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhfhuar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adúar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language