míofar

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish mifir,[2] reshaped under the influence of the suffix -mhar.

Pronunciation

Adjective

míofar (genitive singular masculine míofair, genitive singular feminine míofaire, plural míofara, comparative míofaire)

  1. ugly, unattractive, ill-favored

Declension

Declension of míofar
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative míofar mhíofar míofara;
mhíofara2
vocative mhíofair míofara
genitive míofare míofara míofar
dative míofar;
mhíofar1 		mhíofar;
mhíofair (archaic) 		míofara;
mhíofara2
Comparative níos míofare
Superlative is míofare

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 míofar
radical lenition eclipsis
míofar mhíofar not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “míofar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mifir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 316, page 111
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 201, page 76

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