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gormuaine

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Irish

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Etymology

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gorm (blue) +‎ uaine (green)

Adjective

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gormuaine

  1. blue-green

Declension

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Declension of gormuaine
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gormuaine ghormuaine gormuaine;
ghormuaine2
vocative ghormuaine gormuaine
genitive gormuaine gormuaine gormuaine
dative gormuaine;
ghormuaine1
ghormuaine gormuaine;
ghormuaine2
Comparative níos gormuaine
Superlative is gormuaine

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

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gormuaine f (genitive singular gormuaine)

  1. blue-green

Declension

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Declension of gormuaine (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative gormuaine
vocative a ghormuaine
genitive gormuaine
dative gormuaine
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an ghormuaine
genitive na gormuaine
dative leis an ngormuaine
don ghormuaine

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of gormuaine
radical lenition eclipsis
gormuaine ghormuaine ngormuaine

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.