uiríseal

Irish

Alternative forms

• úiríseal

Etymology

From Old Irish airísel (“very low”). By surface analysis, ur- (“very”) +‎ íseal (“low”).

Adjective

uiríseal (genitive singular masculine uirísil, genitive singular feminine uirísle, plural uirísle, comparative uirísle)

1. lowly, humble
2. base, servile

Declension

Declension of uiríseal

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	uiríseal	uiríseal	uirísle
vocative	uirísil		uirísle
genitive		uirísle	uirísle	uiríseal
dative	uiríseal	uiríseal; uirísil (archaic)	uirísle
Comparative	níos uirísle
Superlative	is uirísle

Related terms

• uirísle f (“lowliness, humility; baseness, servility”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uiríseal

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uiríseal	n-uiríseal	huiríseal	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uiríseal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airísel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language