seòl
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish séol (“sail; bed, couch; weaving implement, loom; course; manner, way”), a borrowing from Old English seġl, seġel, from Proto-West Germanic *segl.
The verb is from Middle Irish seólaid.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seòl m (genitive singular siùil, plural siùil)
Derived terms edit
- prìomh-sheòl (“mainsail”)
Verb edit
seòl (past sheòl, future seòlaidh, verbal noun seòladh, past participle seòlta)
Conjugation edit
- Participles
Tense \ Voice | Active | Passive |
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Present | a' seòladh | -- |
Past | sheòl | sheòladh |
Future | seòlaidh | seòlar |
Conditional | sheòladh | sheòltadh |
Derived terms edit
- iom-sheòl (“circumnavigate”)
- mì-sheòl (“mislead, misguide, misdirect”)
- seòladair (“sailor; navigator; sender”)
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
seòl | sheòl after "an", t-seòl |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |