drugallach

Irish

Adjective

drugallach (genitive singular masculine drugallaigh, genitive singular feminine drugallaí, plural drugallacha, comparative drugallaí)

1. Alternative form of drogallach (“reluctant, unwilling; chary; lazy”)

Declension

Declension of drugallach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	drugallach	dhrugallach	drugallacha; dhrugallacha²
Vocative	dhrugallaigh		drugallacha
Genitive		drugallaí	drugallacha	drugallach
Dative	drugallach; dhrugallach¹	dhrugallach; dhrugallaigh (archaic)	drugallacha; dhrugallacha²
Comparative	níos drugallaí
Superlative	is drugallaí

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
drugallach	dhrugallach	ndrugallach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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