ceolmhar

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ceólmar.[1] By surface analysis, ceol (“music”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ceolmhar (genitive singular masculine ceolmhair, genitive singular feminine ceolmhaire, plural ceolmhara, comparative ceolmhaire)

  1. musical, tuneful
  2. animated, vigorous

Declension

Declension of ceolmhar
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative ceolmhar cheolmhar ceolmhara;
cheolmhara2
vocative cheolmhair ceolmhara
genitive ceolmhaire ceolmhara ceolmhar
dative ceolmhar;
cheolmhar1 		cheolmhar;
cheolmhair (archaic) 		ceolmhara;
cheolmhara2
Comparative níos ceolmhaire
Superlative is ceolmhaire

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceolmhar
radical lenition eclipsis
ceolmhar cheolmhar gceolmhar

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceólmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 54, page 29

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