Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish drochben.[2] By surface analysis, droch- + bean.
Pronunciation
Noun
drochbhean f (genitive singular drochmhná, nominative plural drochmhná)
- bad woman
Declension
Declension of drochbhean (irregular)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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drochbhean
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drochmhná
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| vocative
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a dhrochbhean
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a dhrochmhná
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| genitive
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drochmhná
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drochbhan
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| dative
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drochbhean
drochmhnaoi (archaic, dialectal)
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drochmhná
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an drochbhean
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na drochmhná
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| genitive
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na drochmhná
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na ndrochbhan
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| dative
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leis an drochbhean
leis an drochmhnaoi (archaic, dialectal)
don drochbhean
don drochmhnaoi (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na drochmhná
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References
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “droiċ-ḃean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 368; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 242, page 122