pròiseil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

pròis (“pride”) +‎ -ail (“-ful”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʰɾɔːʃɛl/

Adjective

pròiseil (comparative pròiseile)

  1. proud
    • 1986, Aonghas MacNeacail, “Thug Thu Dhomh Samhradh”, in The Avoiding And Other Poems; republished as An Aghaidh Na Sìorraidheachd / In The Face Of Eternity, 1991, page 124:
      ach m' aideachd àigheach-sa
      anns gach cànan a labhras daoine bidh
      d'ainm air gach teanga,       pròiseil, prìseil
      's tu mo chànan bheag sheang
      but I proclaim exultantly
      in all the languages of men,
      your name will be on every tongue,       proud, priceless
      you are my small slender language

Usage notes

  • The preposition à (às before the definite article) or the appropriate prepositional pronoun is used to express "proud of" etc:
    A bheil thu pròseil às an rud a rinn thu? ― Are you proud of what you did? (literally, “Are you proud of the thing you did?”)
    Bha iad uile pròiseil asainn. ― They were all proud of us.

Declension

Declension of pròseil (type II adjective)
masculine feminine plural
nominative pròseil phròseil pròseil
genitive phròseil pròseile, pròseil pròseil
dative pròseil phròseil pròseil
vocative phròseil phròseil pròseil

Synonyms

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