drochshúil

Irish

Alternative forms

• droch-shúil (superseded)

Etymology

From droch- (“bad”) +‎ súil (“eye”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɔxˈ(h)uːlʲ/

Noun

drochshúil f (genitive singular drochshúile, nominative plural drochshúile)

1. evil eye
2. glare, dirty look

Declension

Declension of drochshúil

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative drochshúil drochshúile Vocative a dhrochshúil a dhrochshúile Genitive drochshúile drochshúl Dative drochshúil drochshúile

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an drochshúil na drochshúile Genitive na drochshúile na ndrochshúl Dative leis an drochshúil don drochshúil leis na drochshúile

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
drochshúil	dhrochshúil	ndrochshúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “drochshúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 71
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochshúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN