foirm

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish [Term?], from Latin fōrma.

Noun

foirm f (genitive singular foirme, nominative plural foirmeacha)

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

Terms derived from foirm

aonfhoirmeach (“uniform, of the same form”, adjective)
aonfhoirmeacht f (“uniformity”)
claonfhoirm f (“oblique form”)

comhfhoirmeacht f (“conformity”)
foirm admhála f (“receipt-form”)

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

"foirm" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“foirm” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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