fo-chladachúil

Irish

Etymology

From fo-chladach (“sublittoral”, noun) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fo-chladachúil (genitive singular masculine fo-chladachúil, genitive singular feminine fo-chladachúla, plural fo-chladachúla, not comparable)

1. sublittoral

Declension

Declension of fo-chladachúil

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	fo-chladachúil	fho-chladachúil	fo-chladachúla; fho-chladachúla2
vocative	fho-chladachúil		fo-chladachúla
genitive		fo-chladachúla	fo-chladachúla	fo-chladachúil
dative	fo-chladachúil; fho-chladachúil1	fho-chladachúil	fo-chladachúla; fho-chladachúla2
Comparative	níos fo-chladachúla
Superlative	is fo-chladachúla

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 fo-chladachúil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fo-chladachúil	fho-chladachúil	bhfo-chladachúil

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) “fo-chladachúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN