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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish foilme (“emptiness, want”), from folam (“empty”) (modern folamh).
Noun
foilmhe f (genitive singular foilmhe, nominative plural foilmhí)
- emptiness, blankness, vacuity, inanition
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
foilmhe
- inflection of folamh:
- genitive singular feminine
- comparative degree
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| foilmhe
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fhoilmhe
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bhfoilmhe
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foilmhe”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foilme”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language