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Irish
Etymology
From droch- (“bad”) + súil (“eye”)
Pronunciation
Noun
drochshúil f (genitive singular drochshúile, nominative plural drochshúile)
- evil eye
- glare, dirty look
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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drochshúil
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dhrochshúil
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ndrochshúil
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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
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochshúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN