fuileach

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fuilech. By surface analysis, fuil (“blood”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fuileach (genitive singular masculine fuiligh, genitive singular feminine fuilí, plural fuileacha, comparative fuilí)

  1. Alternative form of fuilteach (“bloody; bloodthirsty”)

Declension

Declension of fuileach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative fuileach fhuileach fuileacha;
fhuileacha2
vocative fhuiligh fuileacha
genitive fuilí fuileacha fuileach
dative fuileach;
fhuileach1 		fhuileach;
fhuiligh (archaic) 		fuileacha;
fhuileacha2
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 fuileach
radical lenition eclipsis
fuileach fhuileach bhfuileach

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

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