Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish duille (leaf; page).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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duille m (genitive singular duille, nominative plural duillí)

  1. (botany) leaf
  2. (collective) leaves, foliage
  3. (anatomy) eyelid
    Synonym: caipín súile
  4. (figurative) glory, wealth
  5. (figurative) handout, leaflet
    Synonym: bileog

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
duille dhuille nduille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish duilne, from Proto-Celtic *dolinyā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (to bloom). Cognate with Welsh dail and Breton delienn, which are from a variant Proto-Celtic form *dolyā, and more distantly with Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, to bloom).

Noun

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duille f

  1. leaf; (collective) foliage
  2. something resembling a leaf, especially a leaf of a book

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: duille
  • Manx: duilley
  • Scottish Gaelic: duille

Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
duille duille
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/, later /ɣ(ʲ)-/
nduille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish duille (leaf; something resembling a leaf).

Noun

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duille f (genitive singular duille, plural duillean)

  1. (botany) leaf
    Synonym: duilleag
  2. scabbard
    Synonym: duille-sgeine
  3. (anatomy, vulgar slang) vagina

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
duille dhuille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “duille”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language