drugallach

Irish

Adjective

drugallach (genitive singular masculine drugallaigh, genitive singular feminine drugallaí, plural drugallacha, comparative drugallaí)

1. Alternative form of drogallach (“reluctant, unwilling; chary; lazy”)

Declension

Declension of drugallach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	drugallach	dhrugallach	drugallacha; dhrugallacha2
vocative	dhrugallaigh		drugallacha
genitive		drugallaí	drugallacha	drugallach
dative	drugallach; dhrugallach1	dhrugallach; dhrugallaigh (archaic)	drugallacha; dhrugallacha2
Comparative	níos drugallaí
Superlative	is drugallaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of drugallach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
drugallach	dhrugallach	ndrugallach

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