grámhar

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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

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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

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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.

References

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  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

Further reading

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