droch-chleachtadh

Irish

Etymology

From droch- (“bad”) +‎ cleachtadh (“habit”)

Pronunciation

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɔxˈhlaxt̪ˠə/

Noun

droch-chleachtadh m (genitive singular droch-chleachtaidh, nominative plural droch-chleachtaí)

1. bad habit

Declension

Declension of droch-chleachtadh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative droch-chleachtadh droch-chleachtaí vocative a dhroch-chleachtaidh a dhroch-chleachtaí genitive droch-chleachtaidh droch-chleachtaí dative droch-chleachtadh droch-chleachtaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an droch-chleachtadh na droch-chleachtaí genitive an droch-chleachtaidh na ndroch-chleachtaí dative leis an droch-chleachtadh don droch-chleachtadh leis na droch-chleachtaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of droch-chleachtadh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
droch-chleachtadh	dhroch-chleachtadh	ndroch-chleachtadh

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

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “droch-chleachtadh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm