drochmhúinte

Irish

Etymology

From droch- +‎ múinte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɔxˈ(w)uːn̠ʲtʲə/

Adjective

drochmhúinte

1. insolent, rude, unmannerly

   Synonyms: mímhúinte, borb, míbhéasach

2. wicked, vicious (of an animal)

Declension

Declension of drochmhúinte

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	drochmhúinte	dhrochmhúinte	drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte2
vocative	dhrochmhúinte		drochmhúinte
genitive		drochmhúinte	drochmhúinte	drochmhúinte
dative	drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte1	dhrochmhúinte	drochmhúinte; dhrochmhúinte2
Comparative	níos drochmhúinte
Superlative	is drochmhúinte

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Related terms

• drochmhúineadh (“bad manners”)

Noun

drochmhúinte

1. genitive singular of drochmhúineadh

Mutation

Mutated forms of drochmhúinte

radical	lenition	eclipsis
drochmhúinte	dhrochmhúinte	ndrochmhúinte

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “drochmhúinte”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “droċ-ṁúinte”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 262
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 71
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “drochmhúinte”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN