fotholl

Irish

Etymology

From fo- (“sub-, under-”) +‎ toll (“hole, hollow”).

Noun

fotholl m (genitive singular fothoill, nominative plural fothoill)

1. (literary) underground hollow, cavern

Declension

Declension of fotholl

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative fotholl fothoill Vocative a fhothoill a fhotholla Genitive fothoill fotholl Dative fotholl fothoill

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an fotholl na fothoill Genitive an fhothoill na bhfotholl Dative leis an bhfotholl don fhotholl leis na fothoill

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fotholl	fhotholl	bhfotholl
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fotholl”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN