From Middle Irish cairdemail. By surface analysis, cairde (“friends”) + -úil.
cairdiúil (genitive singular masculine cairdiúil, genitive singular feminine cairdiúla, plural cairdiúla, comparative cairdiúla)
singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | cairdiúil | chairdiúil | cairdiúla; chairdiúla2 | |
vocative | chairdiúil | cairdiúla | ||
genitive | cairdiúla | cairdiúla | cairdiúil | |
dative | cairdiúil; chairdiúil1 |
chairdiúil | cairdiúla; chairdiúla2 | |
Comparative | níos cairdiúla | |||
Superlative | is cairdiúla |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cairdiúil | chairdiúil | gcairdiúil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.