gèill

See also: géill

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gíallaid (“gives hostages, obeys, submits; serves, is in base clientship”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲeːʎ/

Verb

gèill (past ghèill, future gèillidh, verbal noun gèilleadh, past participle gèillte)

1. surrender, submit, yield, cede, give up, comply
2. serve, obey, do homage
3. fail
4. break gradually under strain or pressure

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “gèill”, 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), “gíallaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language