foghéar

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Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ géar (“sharp”).

Adjective

foghéar (genitive singular masculine foghéir, genitive singular feminine foghéire, plural foghéara, not comparable)

  1. sharpish

Declension

Declension of foghéar
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative foghéar fhoghéar foghéara;
fhoghéara²
Vocative fhoghéir foghéara
Genitive foghéire foghéara foghéar
Dative foghéar;
fhoghéar¹ 		fhoghéar;
fhoghéir (archaic) 		foghéara;
fhoghéara²
Comparative níos foghéire
Superlative is foghéire

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
foghéar fhoghéar bhfoghéar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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