sìol

See also: síol and siół

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish síl (“seed (of plants and animals); cause, origin; race, progeny, descendants; offspring, breed; act of breeding”).

Noun

sìol m (genitive singular sìl, plural sìl)

1. seed (various senses)
2. brood, descendants, progeny
3. lineage, breed, race, ancestry
4. tribe, clan
5. spawn, roe (of fish)
6. corn
7. oats
8. sprat

Derived terms

• cealla-sìl (“spermatozoon”)
• sìolmhor (“prolific, fertile, generative, fruitful; abounding in seed; productive, substantial”)

References

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