grámhar
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish grádmar (“loving, amiable”); synchronically grá (“love”) + -mhar.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grámhar (genitive singular masculine grámhair, genitive singular feminine grámhaire, plural grámhara, comparative grámhaire)
- loving, tender, affectionate
- Synonyms: caithiseach, ceanúil, muirneach
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 196:
- Dob’fhiriste dom buachaill grádhmhar a fhagháil lé pósadh.
- It would have been easy for me to find a loving boy to marry.
- lovable, amiable
- Synonym: caithiseach
Declension
Declension of grámhar
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | 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
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| grámhar | ghrámhar | ngrámhar |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “grámhar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “grádmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “gráḋṁar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 379
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “grámhar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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