foilmhe
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish foilme (“emptiness, want”), from folam (“empty”) (modern folamh).
Noun
[edit]foilmhe f (genitive singular foilmhe, nominative plural foilmhí)
Declension
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Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
[edit]foilmhe
- inflection of folamh:
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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foilmhe | fhoilmhe | bhfoilmhe |
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]- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “foilmhe”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “foilmhe”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foilmhe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foilme”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language