drochmhúineadh

drochmhúineadh

Irish

Alternative forms

• droch-mhúineadh (superseded)

Etymology

From droch- (“bad”) +‎ múineadh (“good manners, courtesy”)

Pronunciation

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɔxˈuːnə/[1]

Noun

drochmhúineadh m (genitive singular drochmhúinte)

1. rudeness, bad manners

   Synonym: boirbe

2. viciousness (in an animal such as a horse)

Declension

Declension of drochmhúineadh

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative drochmhúineadh Vocative a dhrochmhúineadh Genitive drochmhúinte Dative drochmhúineadh

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an drochmhúineadh Genitive an drochmhúinte Dative leis an drochmhúineadh don drochmhúineadh

Related terms

• drochmhúinte (“ill-mannered”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
drochmhúineadh	dhrochmhúineadh	ndrochmhúineadh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “drochmhúineadh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “droċ-ṁúineaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 71.
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “drochmhúineadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

References

1. Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 71.