drùiseil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish drúisemail (compare modern Irish drúisiúil). By surface analysis, drùis (“lechery, licentiousness, lust”) +‎ -eil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtruːʃɛl/

Adjective

drùiseil

1. horny, lascivious, libidinous, lusty, randy, venereal, wanton

Derived terms

• drùisealachd f (“lecherousness, whoring, lewdness”)

Mutation

Mutation of drùiseil

radical	lenition
drùiseil	dhrùiseil

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “drùiseil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drúisemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language