From Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”). By surface analysis, duine (“human being, person”) + -úil (adjectival suffix). Compare Scottish Gaelic duineil (“manly, firm, manful, virile”, adjective).
duiniúil (genitive singular masculine duiniúil, genitive singular feminine duiniúla, plural duiniúla, comparative duiniúla)
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | duiniúil | dhuiniúil | duiniúla; dhuiniúla² | |
Vocative | dhuiniúil | duiniúla | ||
Genitive | duiniúla | duiniúla | duiniúil | |
Dative | duiniúil; dhuiniúil¹ |
dhuiniúil | duiniúla; dhuiniúla² | |
Comparative | níos duiniúla | |||
Superlative | is duiniúla |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
duiniúil | dhuiniúil | nduiniúil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |