duiniúil

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”). By surface analysis, duine (“human being, person”) +‎ -úil (adjectival suffix). Compare Scottish Gaelic duineil (“manly, firm, manful, virile”, adjective).

Adjective

duiniúil (genitive singular masculine duiniúil, genitive singular feminine duiniúla, plural duiniúla, comparative duiniúla)

  1. human, natural, kindly

Declension

Declension of duiniúil
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative duiniúil dhuiniúil duiniúla;
dhuiniúla2
vocative dhuiniúil duiniúla
genitive duiniúla duiniúla duiniúil
dative duiniúil;
dhuiniúil1 		dhuiniúil duiniúla;
dhuiniúla2
Comparative níos duiniúla
Superlative is duiniúla

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 duiniúil
radical lenition eclipsis
duiniúil dhuiniúil nduiniúil

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

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