ámhar
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish ádmar (“fortunate, lucky, successful”), synchronically ádh (“luck”) + -mhar (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
editámhar (genitive singular masculine ámhair, genitive singular feminine ámhaire, plural ámhara, comparative ámhaire)
- Alternative form of ámharach (“lucky, fortunate”)
Declension
editDeclension of ámhar
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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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
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ámharach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ádmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language