duiniúil

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”). By surface analysis, duine (“human being, person”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix). Compare Scottish Gaelic duineil (“manly, firm, manful, virile”, adjective).

Adjective

duiniúil (genitive singular masculine duiniúil, genitive singular feminine duiniúla, plural duiniúla, comparative duiniúla)

1. human, natural, kindly

Declension

Declension of duiniúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	duiniúil	dhuiniúil	duiniúla; dhuiniúla²
Vocative	dhuiniúil		duiniúla
Genitive		duiniúla	duiniúla	duiniúil
Dative	duiniúil; dhuiniúil¹	dhuiniúil	duiniúla; dhuiniúla²
Comparative	níos duiniúla
Superlative	is duiniúla

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
duiniúil	dhuiniúil	nduiniúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duiniúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language