gaofar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gáethmar.[2] By surface analysis, gaoth (“wind”) +‎ -mhar.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gaofar (genitive singular masculine gaofair, genitive singular feminine gaofaire, plural gaofara, comparative gaofaire)

  1. windy

Declension

Declension of gaofar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gaofar ghaofar gaofara;
ghaofara2
vocative ghaofair gaofara
genitive gaofaire gaofara gaofar
dative gaofar;
ghaofar1 		ghaofar;
ghaofair (archaic) 		gaofara;
ghaofara2
Comparative níos gaofaire
Superlative is gaofaire

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of gaofar
radical lenition eclipsis
gaofar ghaofar ngaofar

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

References

  1. ^ “gaofar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáethmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 131

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