anchúram

Irish

Etymology

From an- (“great, excessive”) +‎ cúram (“care, responsibility”).

Noun

anchúram m (genitive singular anchúraim)

1. excessive solicitude

Declension

Declension of anchúram (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative anchúram vocative a anchúraim genitive anchúraim dative anchúram forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-anchúram genitive an anchúraim dative leis an anchúram don anchúram

Derived terms

• anchúramach (“over-solicitous; officious”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of anchúram

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