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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish drúisemail (compare modern Irish drúisiúil). By surface analysis, drùis (“lechery, licentiousness, lust”) + -eil.
Pronunciation
Adjective
drùiseil
- horny, lascivious, libidinous, lusty, randy, venereal, wanton
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| drùiseil |
dhrùiseil
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “drùiseil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 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