drochshúil

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See also: droch shùil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From droch- (“bad”) +‎ súil (“eye”)

Pronunciation

Noun

drochshúil f (genitive singular drochshúile, nominative plural drochshúile)

  1. evil eye
  2. glare, dirty look

Declension

Declension of drochshúil (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative drochshúil drochshúile
vocative a dhrochshúil a dhrochshúile
genitive drochshúile drochshúl
dative drochshúil drochshúile
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an drochshúil na drochshúile
genitive na drochshúile na ndrochshúl
dative leis an drochshúil
don drochshúil 		leis na drochshúile

Mutation

Mutated forms of drochshúil
radical lenition eclipsis
drochshúil dhrochshúil ndrochshúil

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

References

  1. ^ “drochshúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 71

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