Irish
- droch-scéal, droich-scéal (superseded)
- drochsgéal, droch-sgéal, drochsgeul, droch-sgeul, droichsgéal, droich-sgéal (obsolete)[1]
Etymology
From Old Irish drochscél.[2] By surface analysis, droch- + scéal.
Pronunciation
Noun
drochscéal m (genitive singular drochscéil, nominative plural drochscéalta)
- bad news
- darkside (negative aspect)
- bíonn an drochscéal i gcónaí agat ― you always look on the darkside of things (literally, “you always have the bad news”)
Declension
Declension of drochscéal (first declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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drochscéal
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drochscéalta
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| vocative
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a dhrochscéil
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a dhrochscéalta
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| genitive
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drochscéil
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drochscéalta
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| dative
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drochscéal
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drochscéalta
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of drochscéal
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| drochscéal
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dhrochscéal
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ndrochscéal
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “drochscéal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 droch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 10, page 11
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “droiċ-scéal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “drochscéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN