drochuair

Irish

Etymology

From droch- +‎ uair, literally “evil hour”.

Noun

drochuair f (genitive singular drochuaire)

  1. unfortunate occasion (for someone)
    Antonym: dea-uair

Declension

Declension of drochuair (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative drochuair
vocative a dhrochuair
genitive drochuaire
dative drochuair
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an drochuair
genitive na drochuaire
dative leis an drochuair
don drochuair

Derived terms

  • ar an drochuair (“unfortunately”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of drochuair
radical lenition eclipsis
drochuair dhrochuair ndrochuair

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

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.