diucs

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

diucs

  1. euphemistic form of diabhal (“devil”): deuce, dickens

Usage notes

Used primarily in the expressions m’anam don diucs! (“bless my soul!”, literally “my soul to the deuce!”)[2] and d’anam don diucs! (“what the deuce!”, literally “your soul to the deuce!”).[3] The latter is also found as th'anam don diucs in Munster Irish, and sometimes written phonetically as hanaman diucs.[4]

Mutation

Mutated forms of diucs
radical lenition eclipsis
diucs dhiucs ndiucs

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 170, page 87
  2. ^ “diucs”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  3. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “diucs”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  4. ^ “diucs”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
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