spól
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From spóla (“cut of meat, joint of meat”).
Verb
[edit]spól (present analytic spólann, future analytic spólfaidh, verbal noun spóladh, past participle spólta)
- to cut (meat) into joints
- (figurative) to cut to pieces
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of spól (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Descendants
[edit]- → Fingallian: spole
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English spole, from Middle Dutch spoele, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]spól m (genitive singular spóil)
Descendants
[edit]- →⇒ Fingallian: spologe
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “spól”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 438, page 141