duineil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From duine (“man”) +‎ -ail (adjectival suffix). Possibly from Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”), which is equivalent in formation but slightly different in meaning, as Old Irish duine meant “human being”, with no specification of sex or gender. Compare Irish duiniúil (“human, natural, kindly”, adjective).

Adjective

duineil

  1. manly, firm, manful, virile (like a man)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
duineil dhuineil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “duinemail” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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