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

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duiniúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language