fuathúil
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From fuath (“hate, hatred”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective[edit]
fuathúil (genitive singular masculine fuathúil, genitive singular feminine fuathúla, plural fuathúla, comparative fuathúla)
- Synonym of fuafar (“hateful, hideous, odious”)
Declension[edit]
Declension of fuathúil
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | fuathúil | fhuathúil | fuathúla; fhuathúla² | |
| Vocative | fhuathúil | fuathúla | ||
| Genitive | fuathúla | fuathúla | fuathúil | |
| Dative | fuathúil; fhuathúil¹ |
fhuathúil | fuathúla; fhuathúla² | |
| Comparative | níos fuathúla | |||
| Superlative | is fuathúla | |||
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 |
| fuathúil | fhuathúil | bhfuathúil |
| 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) “fuathúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN