duiniúil
Irish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
duiniúil (genitive singular masculine duiniúil, genitive singular feminine duiniúla, plural duiniúla, comparative duiniúla)
Declension edit
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 edit
| 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 edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duiniúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “duinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language