fuaimiúil
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fuaim (“sound”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]fuaimiúil (genitive singular masculine fuaimiúil, genitive singular feminine fuaimiúla, plural fuaimiúla, comparative fuaimiúla)
- acoustic
- Synonym of fuaimneach (“sounding, resounding, resonant”)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | fuaimiúil | fhuaimiúil | fuaimiúla; fhuaimiúla2 | |
| vocative | fhuaimiúil | fuaimiúla | ||
| genitive | fuaimiúla | fuaimiúla | fuaimiúil | |
| dative | fuaimiúil; fhuaimiúil1 |
fhuaimiúil | fuaimiúla; fhuaimiúla2 | |
| Comparative | níos fuaimiúla | |||
| Superlative | is fuaimiúla | |||
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]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| fuaimiúil | fhuaimiúil | bhfuaimiúil |
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]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuaimiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuaimiúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “fuaimiúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025