doiligh

Irish

From Middle Irish doilig,^[2] apparently from Old Irish do- + fulach (alternative form of fulang). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic duilich and Manx doillee.

doiligh (genitive singular feminine doilí, plural doilí, comparative doilí or doilíocha)

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

Alternative comparative form: doilíocha (Ulster)^[4]

Mutated forms of *doiligh*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
doiligh	dhoiligh	ndoiligh

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

^ “doiligh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doilig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 76, page 32
^ Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, § 5.8, page 85