drùiseil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish drúisemail (compare modern Irish drúisiúil). By surface analysis, drùis (“lechery, licentiousness, lust”) +‎ -eil.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtruːʃɛl/

Adjective

drùiseil

  1. horny, lascivious, libidinous, lusty, randy, venereal, wanton

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of drùiseil
radical lenition
drùiseil dhrùiseil

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “drùiseil”, 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), “drúisemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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