adhfhuathmhaire

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhuathmhaire

Etymology

From Old Irish adúathmaire f (“great dreadfulness”), from adúathmar (“very awful, terrible”) (modern adhfhuafar).

Noun

adhfhuathmhaire f (genitive singular adhfhuathmhaire)

1. Synonym of adhfhuafaireacht (“horror, abomination”)

Declension

Declension of adhfhuathmhaire (fourth declension, no plural)

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

Related terms

• adhfhuafar (“horrible, abominable”, adjective)
• adhfhuathaigh (“dread, abhor”, verb)
• adhfhuath m (“horror”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhfhuathmhaire

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