fuaimiúil

Irish

Etymology

From fuaim (“sound”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fuaimiúil (genitive singular masculine fuaimiúil, genitive singular feminine fuaimiúla, plural fuaimiúla, comparative fuaimiúla)

1. acoustic
2. Synonym of fuaimneach (“sounding, resounding, resonant”)

Declension

Declension of fuaimiúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	fuaimiúil	fhuaimiúil	fuaimiúla; fhuaimiúla²
Vocative	fhuaimiúil		fuaimiúla
Genitive		fuaimiúla	fuaimiúla	fuaimiúil
Dative	fuaimiúil; fhuaimiúil¹	fhuaimiúil	fuaimiúla; fhuaimiúla²
Comparative	níos fuaimiúla
Superlative	is fuaimiúla

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fuaimiúil	fhuaimiúil	bhfuaimiúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuaimiúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuaimiúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fuaimiúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024