dríodar

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

dríodar m (genitive singular dríodair)

1. lees, dregs
2. residue, sediment
3. slops, sludge
4. waste, refuse

Declension

Declension of dríodar (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative dríodar vocative a dhríodair genitive dríodair dative dríodar forms with the definite article case singular nominative an dríodar genitive an dríodair dative leis an dríodar don dríodar

Derived terms

• dríodar airgid (“residue, small amount, of money”)
• dríodar bia (“leavings of food”)
• dríodar caife (“coffee-grounds”)
• dríodar cainte (“worthless talk, jargon”)
• dríodar méise, dríodar crúiscín (“sediment at bottom of vessel, of jug; remains of liquid in vessel, jug”)
• dríodar na ndaoine (“the dregs of the population”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of dríodar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dríodar	dhríodar	ndríodar

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