dílis

See also: dilis

Irish

FWOTD – 15 May 2023

dílis (genitive singular masculine dílis, genitive singular feminine dílse, plural dílse, comparative dílse)

dear, fond
loyal, faithful, trusty
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
  « Ná bíodh brón ort », arsa Máire, « bead-sa im’ chailín dílis duit nó go dtí go bhfillfir arís ».
  “Don’t be sad,” Máire said, “I will be a faithful girl to you until you return again.”
friendly, reliable, sincere
secure, firm
darling, beloved
(one's) own
special

Declension of dílis

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	dílis	dhílis	dílse; dhílse²
Vocative	dhílis	dhílis	dílse
Genitive	dhílis	dílse	dílse	dílis
Dative	dílis; dhílis¹	dhílis	dílse; dhílse²
Comparative	níos dílse
Superlative	is dílse

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

dílis

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dílis	dhílis	ndílis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 díles ‘forfeited to; own’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40