foirm

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish foirm, from Latin fōrma.

Noun

foirm f (genitive singular foirme, nominative plural foirmeacha)

1. form

Declension

Declension of foirm

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative foirm foirmeacha Vocative a fhoirm a fhoirmeacha Genitive foirme foirmeacha Dative foirm foirmeacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fhoirm na foirmeacha Genitive na foirme na bhfoirmeacha Dative leis an bhfoirm don fhoirm leis na foirmeacha

Derived terms

• aonfhoirmeach (“uniform, of the same form”, adjective)
• aonfhoirmeacht f (“uniformity”)
• claonfhoirm f (“oblique form”)
• comhfhoirmeacht f (“conformity”)
• foirm admhála f (“receipt-form”)
• foirm iarratais f (“application-form”)
• foirmiúil (“formal”)
• foirmiúlacht (“formality”)
• neamh-inchomhfhoirmeacht f (“unconformability”)
• trasfhoirmigh (“transform”, verb)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
foirm	fhoirm	bhfoirm
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foirm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foirm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language