duais

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠuəʃ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dúas (“gift, reward”).

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
Declension of duais

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative duais duaiseanna
Vocative a dhuais a dhuaiseanna
Genitive duaise duaiseanna
Dative duais duaiseanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an duais na duaiseanna
Genitive na duaise na nduaiseanna
Dative leis an duais

don duais

 leis na duaiseanna

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the third-person singular form duaidh.

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 tú 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.

Further reading

Portuguese

Adjective

duais

  1. plural of dual

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish dúas (“gift, reward”).

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

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
duaisdhuais
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “duais”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
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