drochmheas

Irish

Etymology

droch- +‎ meas.

Noun

drochmheas m (genitive singular drochmheasa)

1. contempt

   Antonym: dea-mheas

   Chuir sé sraoth as le drochmheas. ― He snorted with contempt.

Declension

Declension of drochmheas

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative drochmheas Vocative a dhrochmheas Genitive drochmheasa Dative drochmheas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an drochmheas Genitive an drochmheasa Dative leis an drochmheas don drochmheas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
drochmheas	dhrochmheas	ndrochmheas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochmheas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN