doicheallach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish doichlech.[2] By surface analysis, doicheall +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic doicheallach.

Adjective

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doicheallach (genitive singular masculine doicheallaigh, genitive singular feminine doicheallaí, plural doicheallach, comparative doicheallaí)

  1. inhospitable, cold, cool, frosty, unfriendly
  2. grudging, unwilling
    gáire doicheallach ― a forced laugh
  3. churlish, disagreeable, sullen, ungracious
  4. standoffish, forbidding
  5. resentful

Declension

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Declension of doicheallach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative doicheallach dhoicheallach doicheallacha;
dhoicheallacha²
Vocative dhoicheallaigh doicheallacha
Genitive doicheallaí doicheallacha doicheallach
Dative doicheallach;
dhoicheallach¹ 		dhoicheallach;
dhoicheallaigh (archaic) 		doicheallacha;
dhoicheallacha²
Comparative níos doicheallaí
Superlative is doicheallaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
doicheallach dhoicheallach ndoicheallach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “doicheallach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dochlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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