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Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish dílaid, from díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (see below).
Verb
dìol (past dhìol, future dìolaidh, verbal noun dìoladh, past participle dìolte)
- avenge, take revenge
- compensate, render, reward, requite
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From a conflation of Old Irish díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (from do·lá (“rejects, remits (a debt)”), from Proto-Celtic *dī-layeti (“throw away”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“loosen, release”)) and dìoghail, from Old Irish dígal (“vengeance”) (from Proto-Celtic *dī-galā).
Noun
dìol m (genitive singular dìola, no plural)
- recompense, satisfaction, retribution
- reward, pay, hire
- satiety, sufficiency
- object, end proposed
- fate, destiny
- the act of weaning
- condition, state
- complement, proportion
- use
- selling
- restitution
Adjective
dìol
- worthy, sufficient
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “dìol”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “díl”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dílaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language