fuilí

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fuilide.[2] By surface analysis, fuil +‎ -í.

Adjective

fuilí

  1. bloody
    Synonym: fuilteach
  2. blood-stained
  3. blood red

Declension

Declension of fuilí
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative fuilí fhuilí fuilí;
fhuilí2
vocative fhuilí fuilí
genitive fuilí fuilí fuilí
dative fuilí;
fhuilí1 		fhuilí fuilí;
fhuilí2
Comparative níos fuilí
Superlative is fuilí

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuilí
radical lenition eclipsis
fuilí fhuilí bhfuilí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “fuiliḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuilide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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