duileasc

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish duilesc (compare Scottish Gaelic duileasg), from Proto-Celtic *doliskos, *duliskos (compare Welsh delysg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“to bloom, be green”) (compare duille (“leaf”)).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

duileasc m (genitive singular duilisc)

  1. dulse (Palmaria palmata)

Declension

Declension of duileasc (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative duileasc
vocative a dhuilisc
genitive duilisc
dative duileasc
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an duileasc
genitive an duilisc
dative leis an duileasc
don duileasc

Descendants

  • → English: dulse, dilisk, dillisk, dilsk, dulce

Mutation

Mutated forms of duileasc
radical lenition eclipsis
duileasc dhuileasc nduileasc

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 103
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 18
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 82

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