fuilteach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish fuiltech.[2] By surface analysis, fuile +‎ -tach.

Adjective

fuilteach (genitive singular masculine fuiltigh, genitive singular feminine fuiltí, plural fuilteacha, comparative fuiltí)

  1. bloody, gory
    Synonym: fuilí
  2. bloodthirsty

Declension

Declension of fuilteach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative fuilteach fhuilteach fuilteacha;
fhuilteacha2
vocative fhuiltigh fuilteacha
genitive fuiltí fuilteacha fuilteach
dative fuilteach;
fhuilteach1 		fhuilteach;
fhuiltigh (archaic) 		fuilteacha;
fhuilteacha2
Comparative níos fuiltí
Superlative is fuiltí

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 fuilteach
radical lenition eclipsis
fuilteach fhuilteach bhfuilteach

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

References

  1. ^ “fuilteach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuiltech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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