fuathúil
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fuath (“hate, hatred”) + -úil (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
[edit]fuathúil (genitive singular masculine fuathúil, genitive singular feminine fuathúla, plural fuathúla, comparative fuathúla)
- Synonym of fuafar (“hateful, hideous, odious”)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | fuathúil | fhuathúil | fuathúla; fhuathúla2 | |
vocative | fhuathúil | fuathúla | ||
genitive | fuathúla | fuathúla | fuathúil | |
dative | fuathúil; fhuathúil1 |
fhuathúil | fuathúla; fhuathúla2 | |
Comparative | níos fuathúla | |||
Superlative | is fuathúla |
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 |
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fuathúil | fhuathúil | bhfuathúil |
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) “fuathúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN