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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
pròis (“pride”) + -ail (“-ful”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
pròiseil (comparative pròiseile)
- proud
1986, Aonghas MacNeacail, “Thug Thu Dhomh Samhradh”, in The Avoiding And Other Poems; republished as An Aghaidh Na Sìorraidheachd / In The Face Of Eternity, 1991, page 124:ach m' aideachd àigheach-sa
anns gach cànan a labhras daoine bidh
d'ainm air gach teanga, pròiseil, prìseil
's tu mo chànan bheag sheang- but I proclaim exultantly
in all the languages of men,
your name will be on every tongue, proud, priceless
you are my small slender language
Usage notes
- The preposition à (às before the definite article) or the appropriate prepositional pronoun is used to express "proud of" etc:
- A bheil thu pròseil às an rud a rinn thu? ― Are you proud of what you did? (literally, “Are you proud of the thing you did?”)
- Bha iad uile pròiseil asainn. ― They were all proud of us.
Declension
Declension of pròiseil (type II adjective)
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