gaisciúil

Irish

Alternative forms

• gaisceamhail, gaisgeamhuil, gasgemail (obsolete)

Etymology

From gaisce +‎ -úil.

Adjective

gaisciúil (genitive singular masculine gaisciúil, genitive singular feminine gaisciúla, plural gaisciúla, comparative gaisciúla)

1. warlike, valiant, swashbuckling
2. boastful, vaunting, vainglorious, pretentious

Declension

Declension of gaisciúil

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	gaisciúil	ghaisciúil	gaisciúla; ghaisciúla2
vocative	ghaisciúil		gaisciúla
genitive		gaisciúla	gaisciúla	gaisciúil
dative	gaisciúil; ghaisciúil1	ghaisciúil	gaisciúla; ghaisciúla2
Comparative	níos gaisciúla
Superlative	is gaisciúla

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

• gaisciúlacht f (“valour, heroism; boastfulness, vainglory”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of gaisciúil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gaisciúil	ghaisciúil	ngaisciúil

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) “gaisciúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gaiscemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gaisciúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gaisciúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024