drogall

Irish

Alternative forms

• drugall

Etymology

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Noun

drogall m (genitive singular drogaill)

1. aversion, repugnance
2. unwillingness, reluctance
3. laziness

Declension

Declension of drogall (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative drogall vocative a dhrogaill genitive drogaill dative drogall forms with the definite article case singular nominative an drogall genitive an drogaill dative leis an drogall don drogall

Derived terms

• drogallach (“reluctant, unwilling; chary; lazy”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of drogall

radical	lenition	eclipsis
drogall	dhrogall	ndrogall

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) “drogall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “drogall”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “drogall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024