fuarchúiseach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fuarchúiseach (genitive singular masculine fuarchúisigh, genitive singular feminine fuarchúisí, plural ~ar, comparative fuarchúisí)
- indifferent (not caring), apathetic, phlegmatic (not easily excited to action)
- cool (unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical), frigid (chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive)
- imperturbable, unresponsive, unemotional, impassive (having or revealing no emotion)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | fuarchúiseach | fhuarchúiseach | fuarchúiseacha; fhuarchúiseacha2 | |
| vocative | fhuarchúisigh | fuarchúiseacha | ||
| genitive | fuarchúisí | fuarchúiseacha | fuarchúiseach | |
| dative | fuarchúiseach; fhuarchúiseach1 |
fhuarchúiseach; fhuarchúisigh (archaic) |
fuarchúiseacha; fhuarchúiseacha2 | |
| Comparative | níos fuarchúisí | |||
| Superlative | is fuarchúisí | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|
| fuarchúiseach | fhuarchúiseach | bhfuarchúiseach |
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]- “fuarchúiseach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “fuar-ċúiseaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuarchúiseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN