goil
English edit
Noun edit
goil (plural goils)
- Pronunciation spelling of girl.
- 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 7:
- “You goils ain't gonna be flyin' today.” Our cab driver was Maxwell Solomon, Hack Number 30756M.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
goil (strong nominative masculine singular goiler, comparative goiler, superlative am goilsten)
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of geil.
- 2009, Christian Ulmen, Für Uwe[1], Rowohlt, →ISBN:
- Wie goil das war! Papa war genau wie Herrn Immer.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes edit
Sometimes associated with the skinhead scene from the typical use of -oi- (as in deutsch → doitsch; but coming from English oi).
Irish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
goil (present analytic goileann, future analytic goilfidh, verbal noun gol, past participle goilte)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Synonyms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Either a rapid-speech variant of gabháil or a variant of dul with assimilation of /d̪ˠ/ to the /ɡ/ of the particle ag.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
goil
- (Connacht, Ulster) verbal noun of gabh (in the meaning "go") and of téigh.
Synonyms edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
goil | ghoil | ngoil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *gali-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“to dribble; gush forth; spring; squirt; throw”). Compare also goile (“stomach, appetite”).
Verb edit
goil (past ghoil, future goilidh, verbal noun goil, past participle goilte)
Noun edit
goil f
- verbal noun of goil
Further reading edit
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “goil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN