fearúil

See also: féarúil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish feramail.[1] By surface analysis, fear (“man”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

fearúil (genitive singular masculine fearúil, genitive singular feminine fearúla, plural fearúla, comparative fearúla)

  1. manly, masculine
  2. virile
  3. brave

Declension

Declension of fearúil
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative fearúil fhearúil fearúla;
fhearúla2
vocative fhearúil fearúla
genitive fearúla fearúla fearúil
dative fearúil;
fhearúil1 		fhearúil fearúla;
fhearúla2
Comparative níos fearúla
Superlative is fearúla

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • fearúlacht f (“manliness, manly spirit”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fearúil
radical lenition eclipsis
fearúil fhearúil bhfearúil

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feramail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 34

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