ceolmhar

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ceólmar.^[1] By surface analysis, ceol (“music”) +‎ -mhar (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈcoːl̪ˠvˠəɾˠ/^[2]
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈcoːl̪ˠwəɾˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈcɔːl̪ˠwəɾˠ/

Adjective

ceolmhar (genitive singular masculine ceolmhair, genitive singular feminine ceolmhaire, plural ceolmhara, comparative ceolmhaire)

musical, tuneful
animated, vigorous

Declension

Declension of *ceolmhar*
	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	ceolmhar	cheolmhar	ceolmhara; cheolmhara²
vocative	cheolmhair	cheolmhar	ceolmhara
genitive	cheolmhair	ceolmhaire	ceolmhara	ceolmhar
dative	ceolmhar; cheolmhar¹	cheolmhar; cheolmhair (archaic)	ceolmhara; cheolmhara²
Comparative	níos ceolmhaire
Superlative	is ceolmhaire

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

Derived terms

ceolmhaire f (“tunefulness”)
ceolmhaireacht f (“tunefulness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *ceolmhar*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceolmhar	cheolmhar	gceolmhar

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

References

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ceólmar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 54, page 29