foirm

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish foirm, from Latin fōrma.

Noun

foirm f (genitive singular foirme, nominative plural foirmeacha)

1. form

Declension

Declension of foirm (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative foirm foirmeacha vocative a fhoirm a fhoirmeacha genitive foirme foirmeacha dative foirm foirmeacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhoirm na foirmeacha genitive na foirme na bhfoirmeacha dative leis an bhfoirm don fhoirm leis na foirmeacha

Derived terms

• aonfhoirmeach (“uniform, of the same form”, adjective)
• aonfhoirmeacht f (“uniformity”)
• claonfhoirm f (“oblique form”)
• comhfhoirmeacht f (“conformity”)
• foirm admhála f (“receipt-form”)
• foirm iarratais f (“application-form”)
• foirmiúil (“formal”)
• foirmiúlacht (“formality”)
• neamh-inchomhfhoirmeacht f (“unconformability”)
• trasfhoirmigh (“transform”, verb)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of foirm

radical	lenition	eclipsis
foirm	fhoirm	bhfoirm

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foirm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foirm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language