duille

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish duille (“leaf; page”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɪlʲə/

NounEdit

duille m (genitive singular duille, nominative plural duillí)

1. (botany) leaf
2. (collective) leaves, foliage
3. (anatomy) eyelid

   Synonym: caipín súile

4. (figuratively) glory, wealth
5. (figuratively) handout, leaflet

   Synonym: bileog

DeclensionEdit

Declension of duille

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative duille duillí Vocative a dhuille a dhuillí Genitive duille duillí Dative duille duillí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an duille na duillí Genitive an duille na nduillí Dative leis an duille don duille leis na duillí

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from duille

• comhdhuille m (“counterfoil”)
• dédhuilleach (“bifoliate”, adjective)
• duille acantais (“acanthus”, literally “acanthus leaf”)
• duilleach (“leafy; leaf-shaped, leaf-patterned”, adjective)

• duilleagar m (“phyllotaxy”)
• duilleog f (“leaf; page; sheet”)
• duilligh (“foliate”, verb)
• duillín m (“docket”)

• duilliúil (“foliose”, adjective)
• duilliúr m (“leaves, foliage; greenery”)
• duillsilteach (“deciduous”, adjective)

MutationEdit

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 readingEdit

• "duille" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “duille” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Entries containing “duille” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “duille” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Old IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• duilne (earlier)

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰal-. Cognate with Welsh dail (“leaf”) and Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, “to bloom”).

NounEdit

duille f

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

InflectionEdit

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from duille

• duillebad, duillerad (“foliage”)
• duillebar (“leafage, foliage”)
• duillech, duilledach (“leafy, abounding in foliage; leaf-shaped”, adjective)

• duillechán (“booklet, pamphlet; book”)
• duillend, duillenn, duillén (“leaf; leaf or strip for writing on; page (of a book); leaf-shaped blade of a spear, hence spear”)
• duilleóg (“leaf; leaf of a book”)

DescendantsEdit

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

MutationEdit

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

Further readingEdit

• “duille” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish duille (“leaf; something resembling a leaf”).

NounEdit

duille f (genitive singular duille, plural duillean)

1. (botany) leaf

   Synonym: duilleag

2. scabbard

   Synonym: duille-sgeine

3. (anatomy, vulgar slang) vagina

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• dà-dhuilleach (“bifoliate, two-folded”, adjective)
• dà-dhuilleach m (“twayblade”)

• duilleach (“foliage”)
• duilleachan (“leaflet, pamphlet”)

• duille-dorais, dor-dhuille (“leaf of a door”)
• eadar-dhuillich (“interleave”)

• gun duille (“leafless”)

MutationEdit

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 readingEdit

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “duille” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.