fuilleamh

Irish

Alternative forms

• fuille, fuilleadh

Etymology

From Old Irish fuillem. By surface analysis, fuill +‎ -amh.

Noun

fuilleamh m (genitive singular fuillimh, nominative plural fuillimh)

1. (literary) verbal noun of fuill (“add to, increase”)
2. increase, interest
3. (finance) investment

Declension

Declension of fuilleamh

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative fuilleamh fuillimh Vocative a fhuillimh a fhuilleamha Genitive fuillimh fuilleamh Dative fuilleamh fuillimh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an fuilleamh na fuillimh Genitive an fhuillimh na bhfuilleamh Dative leis an bhfuilleamh don fhuilleamh leis na fuillimh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fuilleamh	fhuilleamh	bhfuilleamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuilleamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuillem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “accretion”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuilleamh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm