ceolmhar

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ceólmar.^[1] By surface analysis, ceol (“music”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈcoːl̪ˠvˠəɾˠ/^[2]
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈcoːl̪ˠwəɾˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈcɔːl̪ˠwəɾˠ/

Adjective

ceolmhar (genitive singular masculine ceolmhair, genitive singular feminine ceolmhaire, plural ceolmhara, comparative ceolmhaire)

musical, tuneful
animated, vigorous

Declension

Declension of ceolmhar

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	ceolmhar	cheolmhar	ceolmhara; cheolmhara²
Vocative	cheolmhair	cheolmhar	ceolmhara
Genitive	cheolmhair	ceolmhaire	ceolmhara	ceolmhar
Dative	ceolmhar; cheolmhar¹	cheolmhar; cheolmhair (archaic)	ceolmhara; cheolmhara²
Comparative	níos ceolmhaire
Superlative	is ceolmhaire

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

ceolmhaire f (“tunefulness”)
ceolmhaireacht f (“tunefulness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ceolmhar	cheolmhar	gceolmhar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceólmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 54, page 29