cuil
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish cuil (“fly; flea, gnat”), from Proto-Celtic *kulis (compare Scottish Gaelic cuileag, Breton kelien, Welsh cylion), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló- (compare Latin culex (“gnat”), Old Armenian սլաք (slakʻ, “roasting spit”)).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuil f (genitive singular cuile, nominative plural cuileanna)
Declension
editDeclension of cuil
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
editMutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cuil | chuil | gcuil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cuil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *kulis, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuil f (genitive unattested)
Inflection
editFeminine i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cuil | cuilL | cuiliH |
Vocative | cuil | cuilL | cuiliH |
Accusative | cuilN | cuilL | cuiliH |
Genitive | coloH, colaH | coloH, colaH | cuileN |
Dative | cuilL | cuilib | cuilib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cuil | chuil | cuil pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Irish lemmas
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- Irish second-declension nouns
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- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
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- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- Old Irish lemmas
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