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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish grádmar (“loving, amiable”).[2] By surface analysis, grá (“love”) + -mhar.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grámhar (genitive singular masculine grámhair, genitive singular feminine grámhaire, plural grámhara, comparative grámhaire)
- loving, tender, affectionate
- Synonyms: caithiseach, ceanúil, muirneach
1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:Dob’fhiriste dom buachaill grádhmhar a fhagháil lé pósadh.- It would have been easy for me to find a loving boy to marry.
- lovable, amiable
- Synonym: caithiseach
Declension
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| grámhar
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ghrámhar
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ngrámhar
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “grámhar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “grádmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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