follas
See also: follás
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish follus (“manifest, evident, clear, open”).
Adjective
editfollas (genitive singular masculine follais, genitive singular feminine foilse, plural follasa, comparative foilse)
Declension
editDeclension of follas
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | follas | fhollas | follasa; fhollasa² | |
Vocative | fhollais | follasa | ||
Genitive | foilse | follasa | follas | |
Dative | follas; fhollas¹ |
fhollas; fhollais (archaic) |
follasa; fhollasa² | |
Comparative | níos foilse | |||
Superlative | is foilse |
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
editRelated terms
edit- anfhollas (“unclear”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
follas | fhollas | bhfollas |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “follas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “follus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
editNoun
editfollas f pl
Verb
editfollas
- second-person singular present indicative of follar (“to fuck”)