drùiseil
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish drúisemail (compare modern Irish drúisiúil); synchronically, drùis (“lechery, licentiousness, lust”) + -eil.
Pronunciation
Adjective
drùiseil
Derived terms
- drùisealachd f (“lecherousness, whoring, lewdness”)
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
drùiseil | dhrùiseil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “drùiseil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drúisemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language