tapúil
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
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Adjective
[edit]tapúil (genitive singular masculine tapúil, genitive singular feminine tapúla, plural tapúla, comparative tapúla)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tapúil
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | tapúil | thapúil | tapúla; thapúla² | |
Vocative | thapúil | tapúla | ||
Genitive | tapúla | tapúla | tapúil | |
Dative | tapúil; thapúil¹ |
thapúil | tapúla; thapúla² | |
Comparative | níos tapúla | |||
Superlative | is tapúla |
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 | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tapúil | thapúil | dtapúil |
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) “tapúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN