tonúil
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tonúil (genitive singular masculine tonúil, genitive singular feminine tonúla, plural tonúla, comparative tonúla)
- (linguistics, music, etc.) tonal
- Antonyms: atonúil, neamhthonúil
Declension
[edit]Declension of tonúil
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tonúil | thonúil | tonúla; thonúla² | |
| Vocative | thonúil | tonúla | ||
| Genitive | tonúla | tonúla | tonúil | |
| Dative | tonúil; thonúil¹ |
thonúil | tonúla; thonúla² | |
| Comparative | níos tonúla | |||
| Superlative | is tonúla | |||
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
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tonúil | thonúil | dtonúil |
| 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) “tonúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “tonúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024