diúid
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Irish dḯuit (“simple”).
Adjective
[edit]diúid (genitive singular feminine diúide, plural diúide, comparative diúide)
Declension
[edit]Declension of diúid
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | diúid | dhiúid | diúide; dhiúide² | |
| Vocative | dhiúid | diúide | ||
| Genitive | diúide | diúide | diúid | |
| Dative | diúid; dhiúid¹ |
dhiúid | diúide; dhiúide² | |
| Comparative | níos diúide | |||
| Superlative | is diúide | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]- aindiúid f (“obduracy”)
Related terms
[edit]- diúide f (“simplicity”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| diúid | dhiúid | ndiúid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “diúid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dḯuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language