Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish tuillid, from Old Irish ·tuilli, prototonic form of do·slí.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tuill (present analytic tuilleann, future analytic tuillfidh, verbal noun tuilleamh, past participle tuillte)

  1. to earn
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Do thuill sí an ainm sin mar ni raibh sa bhaile mhór aon chailín comh deas comh maordha léi.
      She earned that name because there was in the city no girl as pretty and as dignified as she.
  2. to deserve

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tuill thuill dtuill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·slí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Noun

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tuill m

  1. inflection of toll:
    1. genitive singular
    2. plural