ámhar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ádmar (“fortunate, lucky, successful”), synchronically ádh (“luck”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

ámhar (genitive singular masculine ámhair, genitive singular feminine ámhaire, plural ámhara, comparative ámhaire)

1. Alternative form of ámharach (“lucky, fortunate”)

Declension

Declension of ámhar

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	ámhar	ámhar	ámhara
Vocative	ámhair		ámhara
Genitive		ámhare	ámhara	ámhar
Dative	ámhar	ámhar; ámhair (archaic)	ámhara
Comparative	níos ámhare
Superlative	is ámhare

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ámhar	n-ámhar	hámhar	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ámharach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ádmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language