From Middle Irish fúathmar (“hateful, odious”), from Old Irish úathmar (“dreadful; terrifying”). By surface analysis, fuath (“hate, hatred”) + -mhar (adjectival suffix).
fuafar (genitive singular masculine fuafair, genitive singular feminine fuafaire, plural fuafara, comparative fuafaire)
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | fuafar | fhuafar | fuafara; fhuafara² | |
| Vocative | fhuafair | fuafara | ||
| Genitive | fuafare | fuafara | fuafar | |
| Dative | fuafar; fhuafar¹ |
fhuafar; fhuafair (archaic) |
fuafara; fhuafara² | |
| Comparative | níos fuafare | |||
| Superlative | is fuafare | |||
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 |
| fuafar | fhuafar | bhfuafar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||