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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From duine (“man”) + -ail (adjectival suffix). Possibly from Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”), which is equivalent in formation but slightly different in meaning, as Old Irish duine meant “human being”, with no specification of sex or gender. Compare Irish duiniúil (“human, natural, kindly”, adjective).
Adjective
duineil
- manly, firm, manful, virile (like a man)
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| duineil |
dhuineil
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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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Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “duineil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “duinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language