tráthúil

Irish

From Old Irish tráthamail (“timely”), corresponding to tráth (“hour, time, day, period”) +‎ -úil.

tráthúil (genitive singular feminine tráthúla, plural tráthúla, comparative tráthúla)

timely, opportune
(of speech) apt, felicitous, witty; (of a person) ready-witted, quick at repartee

Declension of tráhúil

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	tráhúil	thráhúil	tráhúla; thráhúla²
Vocative	thráhúil	thráhúil	tráhúla
Genitive	thráhúil	tráhúla	tráhúla	tráhúil
Dative	tráhúil; thráhúil¹	thráhúil	tráhúla; thráhúla²
Comparative	níos tráhúla
Superlative	is tráhúla

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

tráthúlacht (“timeliness, opportuneness; aptness; readiness of speech, wittiness”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tráthúil	thráthúil	dtráthúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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