follas

See also: follás

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish follus (“manifest, evident, clear, open”).

Adjective

follas (genitive singular masculine follais, genitive singular feminine foilse, plural follasa, comparative foilse)

1. clear, evident; open

Declension

Declension of follas

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	follas	fhollas	follasa; fhollasa²
Vocative	fhollais		follasa
Genitive		foilse	follasa	follas
Dative	follas; fhollas¹	fhollas; fhollais (archaic)	follasa; fhollasa²
Comparative	níos foilse
Superlative	is foilse

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• follasach (“clear, evident, open, plain”)
• follasú m (“discovery”)

Related terms

• anfhollas (“unclear”)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “follas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “follus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Spanish

Verb

follas

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of follar.