drisíneacht

Irish

Etymology

From drisín (“small bramble”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

drisíneacht f (genitive singular drisíneachta)

1. prickliness, irritability, touchiness

Declension

Declension of drisíneacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative drisíneacht vocative a dhrisíneacht genitive drisíneachta dative drisíneacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an drisíneacht genitive na drisíneachta dative leis an drisíneacht don drisíneacht

Related terms

• drisíneach (“prickly, irritable, touchy”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of drisíneacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
drisíneacht	dhrisíneacht	ndrisíneacht

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) “drisíneacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN