biadhamhail

Irish

Etymology

biadh +‎ -amhail

Adjective

biadhamhail (genitive singular feminine biadhamhla, plural biadhamhla, comparative biadhamhla)

1. (obsolete) nourishing, nutritive

Declension

Declension of biadhamhail

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	biadhamhail	bhiadhamhail	biadhamhla; bhiadhamhla²
Vocative	bhiadhamhail		biadhamhlaamhla
Genitive		biadhamhla	biadhamhla	biadhamhail
Dative	biadhamhail; bhiadhamhail¹	bhiadhamhail	biadhamhla; bhiadhamhla²
Comparative	níos biadhamhla
Superlative	is biadhamhla

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

• biadhamhlacht (“nutritiveness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
biadhamhail	bhiadhamhail	mbiadhamhail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bíadamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language