adhfhuathmhaire

Irish

Alternative forms

• adhuathmhaire

Etymology

From Old Irish adúathmaire f (“great dreadfulness”), from adúathmar (“very awful, terrible”) (modern adhfhuafar).

Noun

adhfhuathmhaire f (genitive singular adhfhuathmhaire)

1. Synonym of adhfhuafaireacht (“horror, abomination”)

Declension

Declension of adhfhuathmhaire

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative adhfhuathmhaire Vocative a adhfhuathmhaire Genitive adhfhuathmhaire Dative adhfhuathmhaire

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an adhfhuathmhaire Genitive na hadhfhuathmhaire Dative leis an adhfhuathmhaire don adhfhuathmhaire

Related terms

• adhfhuafar (“horrible, abominable”, adjective)
• adhfhuathaigh (“dread, abhor”, verb)
• adhfhuath m (“horror”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
adhfhuathmhaire	n-adhfhuathmhaire	hadhfhuathmhaire	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “adhfhuathmhaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “adúathmaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language