dílis

See also: dilis

Irish

FWOTD – 15 May 2023

dílis (genitive singular masculine dílis, genitive singular feminine dílse, plural dílse, comparative dílse)

dear, fond
loyal, faithful, trusty
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
  « Ná bíodh brón ort », arsa Máire, « bead-sa im’ chailín dílis duit nó go dtí go bhfillfir arís ».
  “Don’t be sad,” Máire said, “I will be a faithful girl to you until you return again.”
friendly, reliable, sincere
secure, firm
darling, beloved
(one's) own
special

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

dílis

Mutated forms of *dílis*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
dílis	dhílis	ndílis

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 díles ‘forfeited to; own’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40