fuilleamh

Irish

Alternative forms

• fuille, fuilleadh

Etymology

From Old Irish fuillem. By surface analysis, fuill +‎ -amh.

Noun

fuilleamh m (genitive singular fuillimh, nominative plural fuillimh)

1. (literary) verbal noun of fuill (“add to, increase”)
2. increase, interest
3. (finance) investment

Declension

Declension of fuilleamh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fuilleamh fuillimh vocative a fhuillimh a fhuilleamha genitive fuillimh fuilleamh dative fuilleamh fuillimh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fuilleamh na fuillimh genitive an fhuillimh na bhfuilleamh dative leis an bhfuilleamh don fhuilleamh leis na fuillimh

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuilleamh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuilleamh	fhuilleamh	bhfuilleamh

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) “fuilleamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuillem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “accretion”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuilleamh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm