adhfhuafar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish adúathmar, adḟúathmar (“very awful, terrible”), from adúath (“great dread, horror; monster”) + -mar. By surface analysis, adhfhuath (“horror”) +‎ -mhar.

Adjective

adhfhuafar (genitive singular masculine adhfhuafair, genitive singular feminine adhfhuafaire, plural adhfhuafara, comparative adhfhuafaire)

  1. horrible, abominable, macabre

Declension

Declension of adhfhuafar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative adhfhuafar adhfhuafar adhfhuafara
vocative adhfhuafair adhfhuafara
genitive adhfhuafare adhfhuafara adhfhuafar
dative adhfhuafar adhfhuafar;
adhfhuafair (archaic) 		adhfhuafara
Comparative níos adhfhuafare
Superlative is adhfhuafare

Mutation

Mutated forms of adhfhuafar
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
adhfhuafar n-adhfhuafar hadhfhuafar not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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