drochmhúinte
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]drochmhúinte
- insolent, rude, unmannerly
- Synonyms: mímhúinte, borb, míbhéasach
- wicked, vicious (of an animal)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | drochmhúinte | dhrochmhúinte | drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte2 | |
vocative | dhrochmhúinte | drochmhúinte | ||
genitive | drochmhúinte | drochmhúinte | drochmhúinte | |
dative | drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte1 |
dhrochmhúinte | drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte2 | |
Comparative | níos drochmhúinte | |||
Superlative | is drochmhúinte |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Related terms
[edit]- drochmhúineadh (“bad manners”)
Noun
[edit]drochmhúinte
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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drochmhúinte | dhrochmhúinte | ndrochmhúinte |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- “drochmhúinte”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “droċ-ṁúinte”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 262
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 71
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochmhúinte”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN