diucs
Irish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdiucs
Usage notes
editUsed primarily in the expressions m’anam don diucs! (“bless my soul!”, literally “my soul to the deuce!”)[2] and d’anam don diucs! (“what the deuce!”, literally “your soul to the deuce!”).[3] The latter is also found as th'anam don diucs in Munster Irish, and sometimes written phonetically as hanaman diucs.[4]
Mutation
edit| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| diucs | dhiucs | ndiucs |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
edit- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 87
- ^ “diucs”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “diucs”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ “diucs”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy