duiniúil
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editduiniúil (genitive singular masculine duiniúil, genitive singular feminine duiniúla, plural duiniúla, comparative duiniúla)
Declension
editDeclension of duiniúil
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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
editIrish mutation | ||
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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
edit- 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