sùil
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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | sùil | sùilean |
| Genitive | sùla | shùl (shùilean) |
| Dative | sùil | sùilean |
| Definite | ||
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | (an) t-sùil | (na) sùilean |
| Genitive | (na) sùla | (nan) sùl (sùilean) |
| Dative | (an) t-sùil | (na) sùilean |
| Vocative | (a) shùil | (a) shùla (shùilean) |
Synonyms edit
- (glance): plathadh
Derived terms edit
- dà-shùileach (“binocular”, adjective)
- droch shùil
- neul-sùla
- sùil air ais
Mutation edit
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| sùil | shùil after "an", t-sùil |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “súil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language