drùiseil
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Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish drúisemail (compare modern Irish drúisiúil). By surface analysis, drùis (“lechery, licentiousness, lust”) + -eil.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
drùiseil
Derived terms[edit]
- drùisealachd f (“lecherousness, whoring, lewdness”)
Mutation[edit]
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| drùiseil | dhrùiseil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
References[edit]
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “drùiseil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drúisemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language