diail

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from diabhail (genitive of diabhal (“devil”)), with which it is homophonous in some dialects.[2] Could also be a reduced form of Dia (“God”) +‎ -úil or a reduced and dissimilated form of diabhal +‎ -úil.

Pronunciation

Adjective

diail (genitive singular feminine diaile, plural diaile, comparative diaile)

  1. great, very good, first-rate, splendid
  2. devilish (extreme, excessive)
  3. (adverbial, in go diail) surprisingly, terribly, extremely

Declension

Declension of diail
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative diail dhiail diaile;
dhiaile2
vocative dhiail diaile
genitive diaile diaile diail
dative diail;
dhiail1 		dhiail diaile;
dhiaile2
Comparative níos diaile
Superlative is diaile

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of diail
radical lenition eclipsis
diail dhiail ndiail

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

References

  1. ^ “diail”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “diaḃail”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 238
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 204, page 103

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “diail”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 332; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “diail”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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