folcmhar
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish folcmar (“flowing, gushing, teeming”). By surface analysis, folc (“downpour, flood”) + -mhar.
Adjective
[edit]folcmhar (genitive singular masculine folcmhair, genitive singular feminine folcmhaire, plural folcmhara, comparative folcmhaire)
Declension
[edit]Declension of folcmhar
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | folcmhar | fholcmhar | folcmhara; fholcmhara² | |
| Vocative | fholcmhair | folcmhara | ||
| Genitive | folcmhaire | folcmhara | folcmhar | |
| Dative | folcmhar; fholcmhar¹ |
fholcmhar; fholcmhair (archaic) |
folcmhara; fholcmhara² | |
| Comparative | níos folcmhaire | |||
| Superlative | is folcmhaire | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| folcmhar | fholcmhar | bhfolcmhar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||