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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cuil (“fly; flea, gnat”), from Proto-Celtic *kulis (compare Scottish Gaelic cuileag, Breton kelien, Welsh cylion), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló- (compare Latin culex (“gnat”), Old Armenian սլաք (slakʻ, “roasting spit”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
cuil f (genitive singular cuile, nominative plural cuileanna)
- fly, bug
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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cuil
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chuil
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gcuil
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cuil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kulis, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuil f (genitive unattested)
- fly
- (sometimes, perhaps) flea, gnat
Inflection
Feminine i-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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cuil
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cuilL
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cuiliH
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Vocative
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cuil
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cuilL
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cuiliH
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Accusative
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cuilN
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cuilL
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cuiliH
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Genitive
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coloH, colaH
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coloH, colaH
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cuileN
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Dative
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cuilL
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cuilib
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cuilib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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cuil
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chuil
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cuil pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading