duineil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From duine (“man”) +‎ -ail (adjectival suffix). Possibly from Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”), which is equivalent in formation but slightly different in meaning, as Old Irish duine meant “human being”, with no specification of sex or gender. Compare Irish duiniúil (“human, natural, kindly”, adjective).

Adjective

duineil

1. manly, firm, manful, virile (like a man)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
duineil	dhuineil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “duineil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language