duileasc
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish duilesc (compare Scottish Gaelic duileasg), from Proto-Celtic *doliskos, *duliskos (compare Welsh delysg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“to bloom, be green”) (compare duille (“leaf”)).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɪlʲəsˠk/
- (Kerry, Aran) IPA(key): /ˈdʲɪlʲəsˠk/[2][3] (corresponding to the form dileasc)
Noun edit
duileasc m (genitive singular duilisc)
Declension edit
Declension of duileasc
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| duileasc | dhuileasc | nduileasc |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 103
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 18
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 82
Further reading edit
- “duileasc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duileasc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “duilesc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language