gaisciúil
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish gaiscemail (“warlike, valiant”), from gaisced (“weapons, arms, armour; valour, prowess, feats of arms, skill at arms”) + -úil + -amail. Synchronically analyzable as gaisce + -úil.
Adjective
gaisciúil (genitive singular masculine gaisciúil, genitive singular feminine gaisciúla, plural gaisciúla, comparative gaisciúla)
Declension
Declension of gaisciúil
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | gaisciúil | ghaisciúil | gaisciúla; ghaisciúla² | |
| Vocative | ghaisciúil | gaisciúla | ||
| Genitive | gaisciúla | gaisciúla | gaisciúil | |
| Dative | gaisciúil; ghaisciúil¹ |
ghaisciúil | gaisciúla; ghaisciúla² | |
| Comparative | níos gaisciúla | |||
| Superlative | is gaisciúla | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Related terms
- gaisciúlacht f (“valour, heroism; boastfulness, vainglory”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gaisciúil | ghaisciúil | ngaisciúil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gaisciúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gaiscemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gaisciúil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “gaisciúil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024