ámhar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ádmar (“fortunate, lucky, successful”), synchronically ádh (“luck”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ámhar (genitive singular masculine ámhair, genitive singular feminine ámhaire, plural ámhara, comparative ámhaire)

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

Declension

Declension of ámhar

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	ámhar	ámhar	ámhara
vocative	ámhair		ámhara
genitive		ámhare	ámhara	ámhar
dative	ámhar	ámhar; ámhair (archaic)	ámhara
Comparative	níos ámhare
Superlative	is ámhare

Mutation

Mutated forms of ámhar

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ámhar	n-ámhar	hámhar	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ámharach”, 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