drochbhéas

Irish

Alternative forms

• droch-bhéas, drochbheus, droch-bheus, droichbhéas, droich-bhéas, droichbheus, droich-bheus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish drochbés. By surface analysis, droch- +‎ béas.

Noun

drochbhéas m (genitive singular drochbhéasa, nominative plural drochbhéasa)

1. vice, bad habit
2. (in the plural) bad manners

Declension

Declension of drochbhéas (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative drochbhéas drochbhéasa vocative a dhrochbhéas a dhrochbhéasa genitive drochbhéasa drochbhéas dative drochbhéas drochbhéasa forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an drochbhéas na drochbhéasa genitive an drochbhéasa na ndrochbhéas dative leis an drochbhéas don drochbhéas leis na drochbhéasa

Mutation

Mutated forms of drochbhéas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
drochbhéas	dhrochbhéas	ndrochbhéas

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

Further reading

• “drochbhéas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “droiċ-ḃéas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 263
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochbhéas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN