duineil
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From duine (“man”) + -ail (adjectival suffix). Possibly from Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”), which is equivalent in formation but slightly different in meaning, as Old Irish duine meant “human being”, with no specification of sex or gender. Compare Irish duiniúil (“human, natural, kindly”, adjective).
Adjective
[edit]duineil
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| duineil | dhuineil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “duineil”, 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), “duinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language