cnámhar

Irish

Etymology

From cnámh (“bone”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

cnámhar (genitive singular masculine cnámhair, genitive singular feminine cnámhaire, plural cnámhara, comparative cnámhaire)

1. bony, ossiferous

Declension

Declension of cnámhar

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine
nominative	cnámhar	chnámhar	cnámhara; chnámhara2
vocative	chnámhair		cnámhara
genitive		cnámhaire	strong noun	weak noun
			cnámhara	cnámhar
dative	cnámhar; chnámhar1	chnámhar; chnámhair (archaic)	cnámhara; chnámhara2
Comparative	níos cnámhaire
Superlative	is cnámhaire

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of cnámhar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cnámhar	chnámhar	gcnámhar

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

References

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cnámhar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm