sùil
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See also: súil
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish súil, from Primitive Irish *sūli, alteration of Proto-Celtic *sūle (“suns”), dual of *sūlos, genitive of *sāwol (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The change in meaning in Irish is apparently due to the mythological view of the sun as the “eye of the sky”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sùil f (genitive sùla, plural sùilean, genitive plural sùl)
Declension
[edit]Declension of sùil (type IVa feminine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | sùil | sùilean |
Genitive | sùla | shùilean |
Dative | sùil | sùilean; sùilibh✝ |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (an) t-sùil | (na) sùilean |
Genitive | (na) sùla | (nan) sùilean |
Dative | (an) t-sùil | (na) sùilean; sùilibh✝ |
Vocative | shùil | shùla; shùilean |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
- Alternative genitive singular and plural: sùl
Synonyms
[edit]- (glance): plathadh
Derived terms
[edit]- dà-shùileach (“binocular”, adjective)
- droch shùil
- neul-sùla
- sùil air ais
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition |
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sùil | shùil after "an", t-sùil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “sùil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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