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.
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| fuafar | fhuafar | bhfuafar |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.