doicheallach

Irish

Alternative forms

doichleach^[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish doichlech.^[2] By surface analysis, doicheall +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic doicheallach.

Adjective

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

inhospitable, cold, cool, frosty, unfriendly
grudging, unwilling
gáire doicheallach ― a forced laugh
churlish, disagreeable, sullen, ungracious
standoffish, forbidding
resentful

Declension

Declension of *doicheallach*
	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	doicheallach	dhoicheallach	doicheallacha; dhoicheallacha²
vocative	dhoicheallaigh	dhoicheallach	doicheallacha
genitive	dhoicheallaigh	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.

References

^ “doicheallach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dochlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language