duiniúil
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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)
Declension
| 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
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| duiniúil | dhuiniúil | nduiniúil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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
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