drochmheas

Irish

Etymology

droch- +‎ meas.

Noun

drochmheas m (genitive singular drochmheasa)

1. contempt

   Antonym: dea-mheas

   Chuir sé sraoth as le drochmheas. ― He snorted with contempt.

Declension

Declension of drochmheas (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative drochmheas vocative a dhrochmheas genitive drochmheasa dative drochmheas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an drochmheas genitive an drochmheasa dative leis an drochmheas don drochmheas

Mutation

Mutated forms of drochmheas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
drochmheas	dhrochmheas	ndrochmheas

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