adhfhuar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish adúar, adḟúar (“very cold”), from ad + úar (“cold”) (modern fuar).

Adjective

adhfhuar (genitive singular masculine adhfhuair, genitive singular feminine adhfhuaire, plural adhfhuara, comparative adhfhuaire)

1. very cold

Declension

Declension of adhfhuar

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	adhfhuar	adhfhuar	adhfhuara
vocative	adhfhuair		adhfhuara
genitive		adhfhuaire	adhfhuara	adhfhuar
dative	adhfhuar	adhfhuar; adhfhuair (archaic)	adhfhuara
Comparative	níos adhfhuaire
Superlative	is adhfhuaire

Related terms

• adhfhuaire f (“extreme coldness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhfhuar

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