bodachúil

Irish

Etymology

From bodach (“boor; lout”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

bodachúil (genitive singular masculine bodachúil, genitive singular feminine bodachúla, plural bodachúla, comparative bodachúla)

1. Alternative form of bodúil

Declension

Declension of bodachúil

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	bodachúil	bhodachúil	bodachúla; bhodachúla2
vocative	bhodachúil		bodachúla
genitive		bodachúla	bodachúla	bodachúil
dative	bodachúil; bhodachúil1	bhodachúil	bodachúla; bhodachúla2
Comparative	níos bodachúla
Superlative	is bodachúla

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of bodachúil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bodachúil	bhodachúil	mbodachúil

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) “bodachúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN