doiligh

Irish

From Middle Irish doilig,^[2] apparently from Old Irish do- + fulach (alternative form of fulang). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic duilich and Manx doillee.

doiligh (genitive singular feminine doilí, plural doilí, comparative doilí or doilíocha)

Declension of doiligh

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	doiligh	dhoiligh	doilí; dhoilí²
Vocative	dhoiligh	dhoiligh	doilí
Genitive	dhoiligh	doilí	doilí	doiligh
Dative	doiligh; dhoiligh¹	dhoiligh	doilí; dhoilí²
Comparative	níos doilí
Superlative	is doilí

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

Alternative comparative form: doilíocha (Ulster)^[4]

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
doiligh	dhoiligh	ndoiligh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ “doiligh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doilig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 76, page 32
^ Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (1996) An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Uladh (in Irish), Dublin: Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, →ISBN, § 5.8, page 85