From feoil (“flesh, meat”) + -mhar (adjectival suffix).
feolmhar (genitive singular masculine feolmhair, genitive singular feminine feolmhaire, plural feolmhara, comparative feolmhaire)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | feolmhar | fheolmhar | feolmhara; fheolmhara² | |
| Vocative | fheolmhair | feolmhara | ||
| Genitive | feolmhare | feolmhara | feolmhar | |
| Dative | feolmhar; fheolmhar¹ |
fheolmhar; fheolmhair (archaic) |
feolmhara; fheolmhara² | |
| Comparative | níos feolmhare | |||
| Superlative | is feolmhare | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| feolmhar | fheolmhar | bhfeolmhar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||