drochmhúinte
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]drochmhúinte
- insolent, rude, unmannerly
- Synonyms: mímhúinte, borb, míbhéasach
- wicked, vicious (of an animal)
Declension
[edit]Declension of drochmhúinte
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | drochmhúinte | dhrochmhúinte | drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte² | |
| Vocative | dhrochmhúinte | drochmhúinte | ||
| Genitive | drochmhúinte | drochmhúinte | drochmhúinte | |
| Dative | drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte¹ |
dhrochmhúinte | drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte² | |
| Comparative | níos drochmhúinte | |||
| Superlative | is drochmhúinte | |||
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
[edit]- drochmhúineadh (“bad manners”)
Noun
[edit]drochmhúinte
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| drochmhúinte | dhrochmhúinte | ndrochmhúinte |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “drochmhúinte”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “droċ-ṁúinte”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 262
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 71
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochmhúinte”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN