bodachúil

Irish

Etymology

From bodach (“boor; lout”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

bodachúil (genitive singular masculine bodachúil, genitive singular feminine bodachúla, plural bodachúla, comparative bodachúla)

1. Alternative form of bodúil

Declension

Declension of bodachúil

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	bodachúil	bhodachúil	bodachúla; bhodachúla²
Vocative	bhodachúil		bodachúla
Genitive		bodachúla	bodachúla	bodachúil
Dative	bodachúil; bhodachúil¹	bhodachúil	bodachúla; bhodachúla²
Comparative	níos bodachúla
Superlative	is bodachúla

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bodachúil	bhodachúil	mbodachúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bodachúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN