anchúram

Irish

Etymology

From an- (“great, excessive”) +‎ cúram (“care, responsibility”).

Noun

anchúram m (genitive singular anchúraim)

1. excessive solicitude

Declension

Declension of anchúram

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative anchúram Vocative a anchúraim Genitive anchúraim Dative anchúram

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-anchúram Genitive an anchúraim Dative leis an anchúram don anchúram

Derived terms

• anchúramach (“over-solicitous; officious”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anchúram	n-anchúram	hanchúram	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) “anchúram”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “anchúram”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language