modhmharach

Irish

Adjective

modhmharach (genitive singular masculine modhmharaigh, genitive singular feminine modhmharaí, plural modhmharacha, comparative modhmharaí)

1. Obsolete form of mómharach (“mannerly, gentle; graceful, dignified; self-content”).

   Synonym: modhmhar

Declension

Declension of modhmharach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	modhmharach	mhodhmharach	modhmharacha; mhodhmharacha²
Vocative	mhodhmharaigh		modhmharacha
Genitive		modhmharaí	modhmharacha	modhmharach
Dative	modhmharach; mhodhmharach¹	mhodhmharach; mhodhmharaigh (archaic)	modhmharacha; mhodhmharacha²
Comparative	níos modhmharaí
Superlative	is modhmharaí

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
modhmharach	mhodhmharach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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