tráthúil

Irish

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

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

Declension
Declension of tráhúil
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tráhúil thráhúil tráhúla;
thráhúla²
Vocative thráhúil tráhúla
Genitive 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.

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

Mutation
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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