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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish gráinemail.[2] By surface analysis, gráin + -úil.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gráiniúil (genitive singular masculine gráiniúil, genitive singular feminine gráiniúla, plural gráiniúla, comparative gráiniúla)
- odious, abominable, hateful, loathsome, abhorrent, heinous, detestable
- Synonym: fuafar
- gruesome
- ugly (unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss)
- foul (hateful; detestable; shameful; wretched)
Declension
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
References
- ^ “gráiniúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gráinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 21
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