See also: diol and dìol

Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish dílaid, from díl (satisfaction, paying, of a debt), from do·lá (rejects, remits (a debt)), from Proto-Celtic *dī-layeti (throw away), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (loosen, release).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

díol (present analytic díolann, future analytic díolfaidh, verbal noun díol, past participle díolta)

  1. sell
  2. (Munster, Ulster) pay
    Synonym: íoc
    • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, § 253, page 91:
      ə Nʹiəl̥ət(ʹ) ʃə
      [dhá ndíolfadh sé]
      if he were to pay
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Fan timpall an tighe agus má’s bean mise a dhíolann ní bheidh tusa aon nídh chun deireadh leis an scéal.
      Stay around the house, and if I'm a woman who pays, you won’t be set back in the matter.

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

díol m (genitive singular as substantive díola, genitive as verbal noun díolta)

  1. verbal noun of díol
  2. selling, sale

Declension edit

As substantive
As verbal noun

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
díol dhíol ndíol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 82
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 14

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