doilíos

Irish

Alternative forms

• doilgheas, doilghios, doilghíos (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish doilges. By surface analysis, doiligh +‎ -as. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic doilgheas.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠælʲisˠ/

Noun

doilíos m (genitive singular doilís, nominative plural)

1. affliction (state of pain, suffering, distress or agony)

   Synonyms: angar, galar

2. remorse, contrition, penitence, attrition (imperfect contrition or remorse)
3. difficulty
4. sorrow, melancholy

Declension

Declension of doilíos (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative doilíos vocative a dhoilís genitive doilís dative doilíos forms with the definite article case singular nominative an doilíos genitive an doilís dative leis an doilíos don doilíos

Derived terms

• doilíosach (“remorseful”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of doilíos

radical	lenition	eclipsis
doilíos	dhoilíos	ndoilíos

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

Further reading

• “doilíos”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doilgius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “doilġeas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 254
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “doilíos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN