fo-rud

Irish

Etymology

fo- (“odd, occasional”) +‎ rud (“thing”)

Noun

fo-rud m (genitive singular fo-ruda, nominative plural fo-rudaí)

1. odd, incidental thing

Declension

Declension of fo-rud (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fo-rud fo-rudaí vocative a fho-rud a fho-rudaí genitive fo-ruda fo-rudaí dative fo-rud fo-rudaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fo-rud na fo-rudaí genitive an fho-ruda na bhfo-rudaí dative leis an bhfo-rud don fho-rud leis na fo-rudaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of fo-rud

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fo-rud	fho-rud	bhfo-rud

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-rud”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “incidental”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025