Irish
- droch-bhéas, drochbheus, droch-bheus, droichbhéas, droich-bhéas, droichbheus, droich-bheus (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Irish drochbés. By surface analysis, droch- + béas.
Noun
drochbhéas m (genitive singular drochbhéasa, nominative plural drochbhéasa)
- vice, bad habit
- (in the plural) bad manners
Declension
Declension of drochbhéas (third declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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drochbhéas
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drochbhéasa
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| vocative
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a dhrochbhéas
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a dhrochbhéasa
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| genitive
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drochbhéasa
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drochbhéas
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| dative
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drochbhéas
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drochbhéasa
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Mutation
Mutated forms of drochbhéas
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| drochbhéas
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dhrochbhéas
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ndrochbhéas
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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
- “drochbhéas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “droiċ-ḃéas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 263
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochbhéas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN