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duais

duais

Irish

Noun

duais f (genitive singular duaise, nominative plural duaiseanna)

  1. a prize (honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; that which may be won by chance)
Declension

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Alternative forms

  • duadhais (obsolete)

Verb

duais

  1. (parts of Munster) second-person singular past indicative of ith
Usage notes

The standard form is d’ith or d’ithis.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
duais dhuais nduais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish duass

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪uəʃ/

Noun

duais f (genitive singular duais, plural duaisean)

  1. reward, prize
  2. wages, fees, pay
    • a' toirt duais seachad, giving wages
    • duais an uilc, the wages of sin
  3. bribe
  4. gains
  5. premium, present

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)