dóighiúil

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish dóigemail; compare Scottish Gaelic dòigheil (“all right, well arranged, good-tempered”). By surface analysis, dóigh (“hope, likelihood”) +‎ -úil.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dóighiúil (genitive singular masculine dóighiúil, genitive singular feminine dóighiúla, plural dóighiúla, comparative dóighiúla)

  1. handsome, good-looking, beautiful
    Chonaic sí an aghaidh na mná ba dhóighiúla a chonaic sí ariamh. ― She saw the face of the most beautiful woman she had ever seen.
  2. generous, decent, respectable

Declension

Declension of dóighiúil
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative dóighiúil dhóighiúil dóigh;
dhóigh2
vocative dhóighiúil dóigh
genitive dóigh dóigh dóighiúil
dative dóighiúil;
dhóighiúil1 		dhóighiúil dóigh;
dhóigh2
Comparative níos dóigh
Superlative is dóigh

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of dóighiúil
radical lenition eclipsis
dóighiúil dhóighiúil ndóighiúil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 150, page 59

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