uirísle

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airísle (“great humility, lowliness”), from airísel (“very low”).

Noun

uirísle f (genitive singular uirísle)

lowliness, humility
baseness, servility

Declension

Declension of uirísle

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	uirísle
Vocative	a uirísle
Genitive	uirísle
Dative	uirísle

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an uirísle
Genitive	na huirísle
Dative	leis an uirísle don uirísle

Synonyms

(lowliness): ísleacht f, uirísleacht f (“lowliness, humility”)

Related terms

uirísligh (“humble; abase, humiliate”, verb)
uirísliú m (“abasement, humiliation”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

uirísle

genitive singular feminine of uiríseal
nominative plural of uiríseal
vocative plural of uiríseal
strong genitive plural of uiríseal
dative plural of uiríseal
comparative degree of uiríseal

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uirísle	n-uirísle	huirísle	t-uirísle
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"uirísle" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“airísle” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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