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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gob (“beak”) + mór (“big”).
Adjective
[edit]gobmhór (genitive singular masculine gobmhóir, genitive singular feminine gobmhóire, plural gobmhóra)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gobmhór
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | gobmhór | ghobmhór | gobmhóra; ghobmhóra² | |
| Vocative | ghobmhóir | gobmhóra | ||
| Genitive | gobmhóire | gobmhóra | gobmhór | |
| Dative | gobmhór; ghobmhór¹ |
ghobmhór; ghobmhóir (archaic) |
gobmhóra; ghobmhóra² | |
| Comparative | níos gobmhóire | |||
| Superlative | is gobmhóire | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gobmhór | ghobmhór | ngobmhór |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gobmhór”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN