teaspúil

Irish

Alternative forms
  • teasbamhail, teasbhamhail, teasbúil, teaspamhail (superseded)[1]

Etymology

From the root of teaspáin, alternative form of taispeáin (“to show”), plus -úil.

Adjective

teaspúil (genitive singular feminine teaspúla, plural teaspúla, comparative teaspúla)

  1. wanton (lewd, immoral)
  2. frisky, exuberant, full of animal spirits

Declension
Declension of teaspúil
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative teaspúil theaspúil teaspúla;
theaspúla²
Vocative theaspúil teaspúla
Genitive teaspúla teaspúla teaspúil
Dative teaspúil;
theaspúil¹		 theaspúil teaspúla;
theaspúla²
Comparative níos teaspúla
Superlative is teaspúla

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
teaspúil theaspúil dteaspúil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “teaspúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

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