feramail

Old Irish

Etymology

fer +‎ -amail

Adjective

feramail

1. manly

Declension

i-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	feramail	feramail	feramail
Vocative	feramail
Accusative	feramail	feramail
Genitive	feramail	feramlae	feramail
Dative	feramail	feramail	feramail
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	feramlai	feramlai
Vocative	feramlai
Accusative	feramlai
Genitive	feramail* feramlae
Dative	feramlaib
Notes	*not when substantivized

Coordinate terms

• banamail, mnáamail (both attested only in Middle Irish)

Derived terms

• feramlacht

Descendants

• Irish: fearúil

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
feramail	ḟeramail	feramail pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
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), “feramail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language