adhfhuaire

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish adúaire f (“intense cold”), from ad- + úaire, fúaire f (“coldness, cold”) (modern fuaire).

Noun

adhfhuaire f (genitive singular adhfhuaire)

1. extreme coldness

Declension

Declension of adhfhuaire (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative adhfhuaire vocative a adhfhuaire genitive adhfhuaire dative adhfhuaire forms with the definite article case singular nominative an adhfhuaire genitive na hadhfhuaire dative leis an adhfhuaire don adhfhuaire

Related terms

• adhfhuar (“very cold”, adjective)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

adhfhuaire

1. inflection of adhfhuar:
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhfhuaire

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhfhuaire	n-adhfhuaire	hadhfhuaire	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) “adhfhuaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “adúaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language