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sùil

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See also: súil

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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sùil f (genitive sùla, plural sùilean, genitive plural sùl)

  1. (anatomy) eye
  2. vision, eyesight
  3. look, glance
  4. expectation, hope

Declension

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  • Alternative genitive singular and plural: sùl

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of sùil
radical lenition
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

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  • 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