grámhar

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish grádmar (“loving, amiable”).[2] By surface analysis, grá (“love”) +‎ -mhar.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɡɾˠɑːvˠəɾˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɡɾˠɑːwəɾˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɡɾˠaːwəɾˠ/

Adjective

grámhar (genitive singular masculine grámhair, genitive singular feminine grámhaire, plural grámhara, comparative grámhaire)

  1. 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.
  2. lovable, amiable
    Synonym: caithiseach

Declension

Declension of grámhar
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative grámhar ghrámhar grámhara;
ghrámhara2
vocative ghrámhair grámhara
genitive grámhaire grámhara grámhar
dative grámhar;
ghrámhar1 		ghrámhar;
ghrámhair (archaic) 		grámhara;
ghrámhara2
Comparative níos grámhaire
Superlative is grámhaire

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 grámhar
radical lenition eclipsis
grámhar ghrámhar ngrámhar

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

References

  1. ^ “grámhar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ 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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