fuileach
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish fuilech. By surface analysis, fuil (“blood”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
editfuileach (genitive singular masculine fuiligh, genitive singular feminine fuilí, plural fuileacha, comparative fuilí)
- Alternative form of fuilteach (“bloody; bloodthirsty”)
Declension
editDeclension of fuileach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | fuileach | fhuileach | fuileacha; fhuileacha² | |
| Vocative | fhuiligh | fuileacha | ||
| Genitive | fuilí | fuileacha | fuileach | |
| Dative | fuileach; fhuileach¹ |
fhuileach; fhuiligh (archaic) |
fuileacha; fhuileacha² | |
| Comparative | níos fuilí | |||
| Superlative | is fuilí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
edit| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| fuileach | fhuileach | bhfuileach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuileach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuilech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language