doicheallach

Irish

Alternative forms

• doichleach

Etymology

From Old Irish doichlech. By surface analysis, doicheall +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic doicheallach.

Adjective

doicheallach (genitive singular masculine doicheallaigh, genitive singular feminine doicheallaí, plural doicheallach, comparative doicheallaí)

1. inhospitable, cold, cool, frosty, unfriendly
2. grudging, unwilling

   gáire doicheallach ― a forced laugh

3. churlish, disagreeable, sullen, ungracious
4. standoffish, forbidding
5. resentful

Declension

Declension of doicheallach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	doicheallach	dhoicheallach	doicheallacha; dhoicheallacha2
vocative	dhoicheallaigh		doicheallacha
genitive		doicheallaí	doicheallacha	doicheallach
dative	doicheallach; dhoicheallach1	dhoicheallach; dhoicheallaigh (archaic)	doicheallacha; dhoicheallacha2
Comparative	níos doicheallaí
Superlative	is doicheallaí

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

Synonyms

• (inhospitable, cold, unfriendly): mímhuinteartha
• (churlish): tútach
• (standoffish): coimhthíoch
• (resentful): múisiamach

Mutation

Mutated forms of doicheallach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
doicheallach	dhoicheallach	ndoicheallach

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “doiċeallaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 252
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “doicheallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN