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siúil

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See also: siùil

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish siblaid (to walk),[2] a back-formation from the preterite of silid (to flow). Doublet of sil.

Verb

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siúil (present analytic siúlann, future analytic siúlfaidh, verbal noun siúl, past participle siúlta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) walk (move on the feet)
  2. tread
  3. pace (walk back and forth in a small distance)
Conjugation
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Alternative forms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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siúil m

  1. vocative/genitive singular of siúl
Alternative forms
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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siúil m

  1. (nonstandard) vocative/genitive singular of seol (bed, couch)

Mutation

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Mutated forms of siúil
radical lenition eclipsis
siúil shiúil
after an, tsiúil
not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “siblaid, siblaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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