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daoirse

daoirse

Irish

Alternative forms

daoirseacht f
daoirsine f

Noun

daoirse f ‎(genitive singular daoirse)

slavery, bondage; servitude, oppression
Alternative form of daoire ‎(“dearness, costliness”)

Declension

Declension of daoirse

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	daoirse
Vocative	a dhaoirse
Genitive	daoirse
Dative	daoirse

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular
Nominative	an daoirse
Genitive	na daoirse
Dative	leis an daoirse don daoirse

Related terms

Related terms

daor ‎(“enslave; convict, condemn”, transitive verb)

daor ‎(“unfree; base, servile; convicted, condemned; hard, severe; costly (in effort, in suffering); dear, high-priced”, adjective)

daor m ‎(“unfree person; slave; condemned, convicted, person”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
daoirse	dhaoirse	ndaoirse
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"daoirse" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“doíre” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.