sùil - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Old Irish súil, from Primitive Irish *sūli, alteration of Proto-Celtic *sūle (“suns”), dual of *sūlos, genitive of *sāwol (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The change in meaning in Irish is apparently due to the mythological view of the sun as the “eye of the sky”.
sùil f (genitive sùla, plural sùilean, genitive plural sùl)
- Alternative genitive singular and plural: sùl
- (glance): plathadh
- dà-shùileach (“binocular”, adjective)
- droch shùil
- neul-sùla
- sùil air ais
| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| sùil | shùil after "an", t-sùil |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “sùil”, 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), “súil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language