dícheall

See also: dìcheall

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

dícheall m (genitive singular díchill)

  1. (one's) best effort
    Déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall.
    I’ll do my best.

Declension

Declension of dícheall (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative dícheall
vocative a dhíchill
genitive díchill
dative dícheall
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an dícheall
genitive an díchill
dative leis an dícheall
don dícheall

Mutation

Mutated forms of dícheall
radical lenition eclipsis
dícheall dhícheall ndícheall

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Dillon, Myles, Donncha Ó Cróinín (1961) Teach Yourself Irish, Sevenoaks, England: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 223
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 82
  3. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 551, page 102
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 343, page 118

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