fuilteach

Irish

Alternative forms

folúil, fuileach
folamhail, fuillteach (superseded)^[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish fuiltech.^[2] By surface analysis, fuile +‎ -tach.

Adjective

fuilteach (genitive singular masculine fuiltigh, genitive singular feminine fuiltí, plural fuilteacha, comparative fuiltí)

bloody, gory
Synonym: fuilí
bloodthirsty

Declension

Declension of *fuilteach*
	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	fuilteach	fhuilteach	fuilteacha; fhuilteacha²
vocative	fhuiltigh	fhuilteach	fuilteacha
genitive	fhuiltigh	fuiltí	fuilteacha	fuilteach
dative	fuilteach; fhuilteach¹	fhuilteach; fhuiltigh (archaic)	fuilteacha; fhuilteacha²
Comparative	níos fuiltí
Superlative	is fuiltí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of *fuilteach*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuilteach	fhuilteach	bhfuilteach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ “fuilteach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuiltech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language