duileasc

Irish

Alternative forms

• dileasc
• diliosc, duileasg, duilleasg, duleasc (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish duilesc (compare Scottish Gaelic duileasg), from Proto-Celtic *doliskos, *duliskos (compare Welsh delysg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“to bloom, be green”) (compare duille (“leaf”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɪlʲəsˠk/
• (Kerry, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈdʲɪlʲəsˠk/ (corresponding to the form dileasc)

Noun

duileasc m (genitive singular duilisc)

1. dulse (Palmaria palmata)

Declension

Declension of duileasc

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative duileasc Vocative a dhuilisc Genitive duilisc Dative duileasc

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an duileasc Genitive an duilisc Dative leis an duileasc don duileasc

Descendants

• → English: dulse, dilisk, dillisk, dilsk, dulce

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
duileasc	dhuileasc	nduileasc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “duileasc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duileasc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duilesc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language