tollmhór
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom toll (“posterior, buttocks”) + mór (“big, large, great”).
Adjective
edittollmhór (genitive singular masculine tollmhóir, genitive singular feminine tollmhóire, plural tollmhóra, comparative tollmhó)
Declension
editDeclension of tollmhór
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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
edit- tollmhóire (“bumptiousness”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tollmhór | thollmhór | dtollmhór |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- 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