duineil

== Scottish Gaelic == === Etymology === From duine (“man”) +‎ -ail (adjectival suffix). Possibly from Old Irish duinemail (“humane, liberal”), which is equivalent in formation but slightly different in meaning, as Old Irish duine meant “human being”, with no specification of sex or gender. Compare Irish duiniúil (“human, natural, kindly”, adjective). === Adjective === duineil manly, firm, manful, virile (like a man) === Mutation === === Further reading === Edward Dwelly (1911), “duineil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duinemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language