sluaghmhar

Irish

Adjective

sluaghmhar (genitive singular masculine sluaghmhair, genitive singular feminine sluaghmhaire, plural sluaghmhara, comparative sluaghmhaire)

1. Obsolete form of sluamhar (“having large forces; multitudinous”).

Declension

Declension of sluaghmhar

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	sluaghmhar	shluaghmhar	sluaghmhara; shluaghmhara²
Vocative	shluaghhair		sluaghmhara
Genitive		sluaghmhaire	sluaghmhara	sluaghmhar
Dative	sluaghmhar; shluaghmhar¹	shluaghmhar; shluaghhair (archaic)	sluaghmhara; shluaghmhara²
Comparative	níos sluaghmhaire
Superlative	is sluaghmhaire

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
sluaghmhar	shluaghmhar after an, tsluaghmhar	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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