amhola

Irish

Etymology

From amh (raw, uncooked) +‎ ola (oil).

Noun

amhola f (genitive singular amhola, nominative plural amholaí)

  1. crude oil

Declension

Declension of amhola (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative amhola amholaí
vocative a amhola a amholaí
genitive amhola amholaí
dative amhola amholaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an amhola na hamholaí
genitive na hamhola na n-amholaí
dative leis an amhola
don amhola
leis na hamholaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of amhola
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
amhola n-amhola hamhola not applicable

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

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amhola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • crude+oil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025