fuafar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish fúathmar (“hateful, odious”), from Old Irish úathmar (“dreadful; terrifying”). By surface analysis, fuath (“hate, hatred”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fuafar (genitive singular masculine fuafair, genitive singular feminine fuafaire, plural fuafara, comparative fuafaire)

  1. hateful, hideous, odious
    Synonym: gráiniúil

Declension

Declension of fuafar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative fuafar fhuafar fuafara;
fhuafara2
vocative fhuafair fuafara
genitive fuafare fuafara fuafar
dative fuafar;
fhuafar1 		fhuafar;
fhuafair (archaic) 		fuafara;
fhuafara2
Comparative níos fuafare
Superlative is fuafare

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuafar
radical lenition eclipsis
fuafar fhuafar bhfuafar

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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