gaofar

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gáethmar.[2] By surface analysis, gaoth (“wind”) +‎ -mhar.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gaofar (genitive singular masculine gaofair, genitive singular feminine gaofaire, plural gaofara, comparative gaofaire)

  1. windy

Declension

Declension of gaofar
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gaofar ghaofar gaofara;
ghaofara2
vocative ghaofair gaofara
genitive gaofaire gaofara gaofar
dative gaofar;
ghaofar1 		ghaofar;
ghaofair (archaic) 		gaofara;
ghaofara2
Comparative níos gaofaire
Superlative is gaofaire

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 gaofar
radical lenition eclipsis
gaofar ghaofar ngaofar

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

References

  1. ^ “gaofar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gáethmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 131

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