fo-chladachúil

Irish

Etymology

From fo-chladach (“sublittoral”, noun) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

fo-chladachúil (genitive singular masculine fo-chladachúil, genitive singular feminine fo-chladachúla, plural fo-chladachúla, not comparable)

1. sublittoral

Declension

Declension of fo-chladachúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	fo-chladachúil	fho-chladachúil	fo-chladachúla; fho-chladachúla²
Vocative	fho-chladachúil		fo-chladachúla
Genitive		fo-chladachúla	fo-chladachúla	fo-chladachúil
Dative	fo-chladachúil; fho-chladachúil¹	fho-chladachúil	fo-chladachúla; fho-chladachúla²
Comparative	níos fo-chladachúla
Superlative	is fo-chladachúla

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
fo-chladachúil	fho-chladachúil	bhfo-chladachúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fo-chladachúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN