tollmhór

Irish

Etymology

From toll (“posterior, buttocks”) +‎ mór (“big, large, great”).

Adjective

tollmhór (genitive singular masculine tollmhóir, genitive singular feminine tollmhóire, plural tollmhóra, comparative tollmhó)

1. big-bottomed
2. bumptious

Declension

Declension of tollmhór

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	tollmhór	thollmhór	tollmhóra; thollmhóra2
vocative	thollmhóir		tollmhóra
genitive		tollmhóire	tollmhóra	tollmhór
dative	tollmhór; thollmhór1	thollmhór; thollmhóir (archaic)	tollmhóra; thollmhóra2
Comparative	níos tollmhó
Superlative	is tollmhó

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

Derived terms

• tollmhóire (“bumptiousness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tollmhór

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tollmhór	thollmhór	dtollmhór

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 toll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tollmhór”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN