doicheallach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish doichlech.[2] By surface analysis, doicheall +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic doicheallach.

Adjective

doicheallach (genitive singular masculine doicheallaigh, genitive singular feminine doicheallaí, plural doicheallach, comparative doicheallaí)

  1. inhospitable, cold, cool, frosty, unfriendly
  2. grudging, unwilling
    gáire doicheallach ― a forced laugh
  3. churlish, disagreeable, sullen, ungracious
  4. standoffish, forbidding
  5. resentful

Declension

Declension of doicheallach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative doicheallach dhoicheallach doicheallacha;
dhoicheallacha2
vocative dhoicheallaigh doicheallacha
genitive doicheallaí doicheallacha doicheallach
dative doicheallach;
dhoicheallach1 		dhoicheallach;
dhoicheallaigh (archaic) 		doicheallacha;
dhoicheallacha2
Comparative níos doicheallaí
Superlative is doicheallaí

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

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of doicheallach
radical lenition eclipsis
doicheallach dhoicheallach ndoicheallach

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

References

  1. ^ “doicheallach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dochlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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