foláir

Irish

Alternative forms

• foráil, fuláir

Etymology

From Old Irish furóil (“superabundance, excess”).

Pronunciation

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fʲlʲɑːɾˠ/ (as if spelled fleár)

Noun

foláir f

1. Only used in ní foláir

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
foláir	fholáir	bhfoláir
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), “foróil, furóil, fuláir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foláir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN