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

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uiríseal	n-uiríseal	huiríseal	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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