Irish
- draíodaí
- draoidheadóir (obsolete)
Etymology
From draoi (“druid; wizard, magician; diviner; trickster”) + -adóir.
Pronunciation
Noun
draíodóir m (genitive singular draíodóra, nominative plural draíodóirí)
- magician
- crafty, sly, person; rogue, hypocrite; trickster
- secretive person
Declension
Declension of draíodóir (third declension)
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Derived terms
- bandraíodóir
- draíodóireacht f (“(practice of) magic; sly cunning, hypocrisy, trickery; secretiveness”)
- draíodóir fir m (“wizard; enchanter”)
- draíodóir mná m (“witch; enchantress”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of draíodóir
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lenition
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eclipsis
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dhraíodóir
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ndraíodóir
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “draíodóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “draíodóir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 72
- “draíodóir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025