daille

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish daille.[1] By surface analysis, dall +‎ -e.

Noun

daille f (genitive singular daille)

  1. blindness
Declension
Declension of daille (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative daille
vocative a dhaille
genitive daille
dative daille
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an daille
genitive na daille
dative leis an daille
don daille

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

daille

  1. inflection of dall:
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutated forms of daille
radical lenition eclipsis
daille dhaille ndaille

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “daille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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