ádhmhar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ádmar (“fortunate, lucky, successful”).

Adjective

ádhmhar (genitive singular masculine ádhmhair, genitive singular feminine ádhmhaire, plural ádhmhara, comparative ádhmhaire)

1. Alternative form of ámharach (“lucky, fortunate”)

Declension

Declension of ádhmhar

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	ádhmhar	ádhmhar	ádhmhara
vocative	ádhmhair		ádhmhara
genitive		ádhmhare	ádhmhara	ádhmhar
dative	ádhmhar	ádhmhar; ádhmhair (archaic)	ádhmhara
Comparative	níos ádhmhare
Superlative	is ádhmhare

Mutation

Mutated forms of ádhmhar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ádhmhar	n-ádhmhar	hádhmhar	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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