folcmhar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish folcmar (“flowing, gushing, teeming”). By surface analysis, folc (“downpour, flood”) +‎ -mhar.

Adjective

folcmhar (genitive singular masculine folcmhair, genitive singular feminine folcmhaire, plural folcmhara, comparative folcmhaire)

  1. pouring, torrential

Declension

Declension of folcmhar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative folcmhar fholcmhar folcmhara;
fholcmhara2
vocative fholcmhair folcmhara
genitive folcmhaire folcmhara folcmhar
dative folcmhar;
fholcmhar1 		fholcmhar;
fholcmhair (archaic) 		folcmhara;
fholcmhara2
Comparative níos folcmhaire
Superlative is folcmhaire

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 folcmhar
radical lenition eclipsis
folcmhar fholcmhar bhfolcmhar

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

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