adhfhuafar
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish adúathmar, adḟúathmar (“very awful, terrible”), from adúath (“great dread, horror; monster”) + -mar. By surface analysis, adhfhuath (“horror”) + -mhar.
Adjective
[edit]adhfhuafar (genitive singular masculine adhfhuafair, genitive singular feminine adhfhuafaire, plural adhfhuafara, comparative adhfhuafaire)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | adhfhuafar | adhfhuafar | adhfhuafara | |
| vocative | adhfhuafair | adhfhuafara | ||
| genitive | adhfhuafare | adhfhuafara | adhfhuafar | |
| dative | adhfhuafar | adhfhuafar; adhfhuafair (archaic) |
adhfhuafara | |
| Comparative | níos adhfhuafare | |||
| Superlative | is adhfhuafare | |||
Related terms
[edit]- adhfhuafaireacht f, adhfhuathmhaire f (“horror, abomination”)
- adhfhuathaigh (“dread, abhor”, verb)
- adhfhuath m (“horror”)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| adhfhuafar | n-adhfhuafar | hadhfhuafar | 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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhfhuafar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adúathmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “macabre”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024