draoi

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Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*dóru

From Old Irish druï, druí (“druid; magician, wizard, diviner”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally either “tree-knower” or “firm knower”), the second element the same as in saoi (“sage”), daoi (“fool”), and Old Irish ainb (“ignorant”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic draoidh, Welsh derwydd, Cornish drewydh, Manx druaight, druaightagh, druaightys, Welsh dryw.

Pronunciation

Noun

draoi m (genitive singular draoi, nominative plural draoithe)

  1. druid
  2. wizard, magician
    1. wizard (one who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field)
    2. (computing) wizard
  3. augur, diviner

Declension

Declension of draoi

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative draoi draoithe
Vocative a dhraoi a dhraoithe
Genitive draoi draoithe
Dative draoi draoithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an draoi na draoithe
Genitive an draoi na ndraoithe
Dative leis an draoi

don draoi

leis na draoithe

Derived terms

Noun

draoi m (genitive singular draoi)

  1. great number or amount

Declension

Declension of draoi

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative draoi
Vocative a dhraoi
Genitive draoi
Dative draoi

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an draoi
Genitive an draoi
Dative leis an draoi

don draoi

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
draoi dhraoi ndraoi
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “druí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 72
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

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