tollmhór
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From toll (“posterior, buttocks”) + mór (“big, large, great”).
Adjective edit
tollmhór (genitive singular masculine tollmhóir, genitive singular feminine tollmhóire, plural tollmhóra, comparative tollmhó)
Declension edit
Declension of tollmhór
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tollmhór | thollmhór | tollmhóra; thollmhóra² | |
| Vocative | thollmhóir | tollmhóra | ||
| Genitive | tollmhóire | tollmhóra | tollmhór | |
| Dative | tollmhór; thollmhór¹ |
thollmhór; thollmhóir (archaic) |
tollmhóra; thollmhóra² | |
| Comparative | níos tollmhó | |||
| Superlative | is tollmhó | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms edit
- tollmhóire (“bumptiousness”)
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tollmhór | thollmhór | dtollmhór |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 toll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tollmhór”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN