aoibhiúil
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From aoibh (“smile; pleasant expression”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]aoibhiúil (genitive singular masculine aoibhiúil, genitive singular feminine aoibhiúla, plural aoibhiúla, comparative aoibhiúla)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | aoibhiúil | aoibhiúil | aoibhiúla | |
vocative | aoibhiúil | aoibhiúla | ||
genitive | aoibhiúla | aoibhiúla | aoibhiúil | |
dative | aoibhiúil | aoibhiúil | aoibhiúla | |
Comparative | níos aoibhiúla | |||
Superlative | is aoibhiúla |
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]- anaoibhiúil (“unsmiling, gloomy, glum, despondent”, adjective)
Derived terms
[edit]- aoibhiúlacht f (“pleasantness”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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aoibhiúil | n-aoibhiúil | haoibhiúil | 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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aoibhiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN