diabhlaí

Irish

Alternative forms

  • diabhalta, diablaí, diablásach
  • diabhlaidhe, diabhlaighe, diabhluidhe, diablaidhe, diabluidhe, diabluighe (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish díablaide.[2] By surface analysis, diabhal +‎ -aí.

Adjective

diabhlaí

  1. devilish, diabolical, satanic
  2. cursed (hateful, damnable, accursed)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of diabhlaí
radical lenition eclipsis
diabhlaí dhiabhlaí ndiabhlaí

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

References

  1. ^ “diabhlaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “díablaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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