deònach

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • deòntach, diùnach

Etymology

From Old Irish deónach (“willing, voluntary”). By surface analysis, deòin +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d̥ʲɔːnəx/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /d̥ʲoːnəx/[1][2]

Adjective

deònach (genitive singular masculine deònaich, comparative deònaiche)

  1. willing, desirous, eager
    Antonym: aindeònach
  2. spontaneous

Mutation

Mutation of deònach
radical lenition
deònach dheònach

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

References

  1. ^ Ladefoged, Jenny, Ladefoged, Peter, Turk, Alice, Hind, Kevin (5 February 1996) “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “deònach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deónach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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