sneachtúil
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish snechtamail (“snowy, white as snow”); synchronically, sneachta (“snow”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
sneachtúil (genitive singular masculine sneachtúil, genitive singular feminine sneachtúla, plural sneachtúla, comparative sneachtúla)
- snowy
- Synonyms: sneachtach, sneachtaí
Declension
Declension of sneachtúil
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | sneachtúil | shneachtúil | sneachtúla; shneachtúla² | |
| Vocative | shneachtúil | sneachtúla | ||
| Genitive | sneachtúla | sneachtúla | sneachtúil | |
| Dative | sneachtúil; shneachtúil¹ |
shneachtúil | sneachtúla; shneachtúla² | |
| Comparative | níos sneachtúla | |||
| Superlative | is sneachtúla | |||
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
- ulchabhán sneachtúil (“snowy owl”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| sneachtúil | shneachtúil after an, tsneachtúil |
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) “sneachtúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snechtamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sneachtúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “sneachtúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024