Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish fuillem. By surface analysis, fuill + -amh.
Noun
fuilleamh m (genitive singular fuillimh, nominative plural fuillimh)
- (literary) verbal noun of fuill (“add to, increase”)
- increase, interest
- (finance) investment
Declension
Declension of fuilleamh (first declension)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of fuilleamh
radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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fuilleamh
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fhuilleamh
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bhfuilleamh
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuilleamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuillem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “accretion”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
Further reading