anfholláin

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish anḟolláin. By surface analysis, an- (negative prefix) +‎ folláin (“healthy; wholesome, sound”).

Adjective

anfholláin (genitive singular feminine anfholláine, plural anfholláine, comparative anfholláine)

1. unwholesome

Declension

Declension of anfholláin

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	anfholláin	anfholláin	anfholláine
vocative	anfholláin		anfholláine
genitive		anfholláine	anfholláine	anfholláin
dative	anfholláin	anfholláin	anfholláine
Comparative	níos anfholláine
Superlative	is anfholláine

Mutation

Mutated forms of anfholláin

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anfholláin	n-anfholláin	hanfholláin	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anfholláin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anḟolláin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language