daoirse

Irish

Alternative forms

• daoirseacht f
• daoirsine f

Etymology

From Old Irish doíre (“captivity, slavery, bondage”), possibly altered through analogy with saoirse (“freedom, liberty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠiːɾˠʃə/

Noun

daoirse f (genitive singular daoirse)

1. slavery, bondage; servitude, oppression
2. Alternative form of daoire (“dearness, costliness”)

Declension

Declension of daoirse (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative daoirse vocative a dhaoirse genitive daoirse dative daoirse forms with the definite article case singular nominative an daoirse genitive na daoirse dative leis an daoirse don daoirse

Related terms

• daor (“enslave; convict, condemn”, transitive verb)
• daor (“unfree; base, servile; convicted, condemned; hard, severe; costly (in effort, in suffering); dear, high-priced”, adjective)
• daor m (“unfree person; slave; condemned, convicted, person”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of daoirse

radical	lenition	eclipsis
daoirse	dhaoirse	ndaoirse

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “daoirse”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doíre”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language