falláin

See also: fallain

Irish

Pronunciation

Adjective

falláin (genitive singular masculine falláin, genitive singular feminine falláine, plural falláine, comparative falláine)

  1. Ulster form of folláin

Declension

Declension of falláin
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative falláin fhalláin falláine;
fhalláine2
vocative fhalláin falláine
genitive falláine falláine falláin
dative falláin;
fhalláin1
fhalláin falláine;
fhalláine2
Comparative níos falláine
Superlative is falláine

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of falláin
radical lenition eclipsis
falláin fhalláin bhfalláin

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 9, page 7