fuathúil

Irish

Etymology

From fuath (“hate, hatred”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fuathúil (genitive singular masculine fuathúil, genitive singular feminine fuathúla, plural fuathúla, comparative fuathúla)

1. Synonym of fuafar (“hateful, hideous, odious”)

Declension

Declension of fuathúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fuathúil	fhuathúil	bhfuathúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuathúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN