drùiseil

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish drúisemail (compare modern Irish drúisiúil). By surface analysis, drùis (lechery, licentiousness, lust) +‎ -eil.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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drùiseil

  1. horny, lascivious, libidinous, lusty, randy, venereal, wanton

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
drùiseil dhrùiseil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • 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