doirseoir

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish doirseoir.[2] By surface analysis, doras (“door”) +‎ -óir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔɾˠsˠɔɾʲ/[3] (corresponding to the form dorsóir)

Noun

doirseoir m (genitive singular doirseora, nominative plural doirseoirí)

  1. doorman, janitor, (hall) porter

Declension

Declension of doirseoir (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative doirseoir doirseoirí
vocative a dhoirseoir a dhoirseoirí
genitive doirseora doirseoirí
dative doirseoir doirseoirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an doirseoir na doirseoirí
genitive an doirseora na ndoirseoirí
dative leis an doirseoir
don doirseoir 		leis na doirseoirí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of doirseoir
radical lenition eclipsis
doirseoir dhoirseoir ndoirseoir

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

References

  1. ^ “doirseoir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doirseóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 196

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