dùil

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

MacBain suggests a relation to Ancient Greek θυμός (thumós, “soul, desire, passion”) and Lithuanian dūmas (“smoke”) (NB: Perhaps erroneously, MacBain glosses the Lithuanian as dumas (“thought”)). Regardless, if true, it would be from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”).

Noun

dùil f (genitive singular dùile, plural dùilean)

  1. hope, expectation, expectancy, prospect
  2. intention, thought
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dúil, dúl. MacBain relates this to Sanskrit धूलि (dhūli, “dust”) and Latin fūlīgō (“soot”), however Stokes suggests a relation to German zeugen (“to beget, to bear witness”) and Latin dūcō (“I pull, I guide”) to explain dialectic na dùil (“poor creatures!”) (cf. Irish dúil (“creature”)) and dùileag (“a term of affection for a girl”).

Noun

dùil f (genitive dùile, plural dùilean or dùiltean, genitive plural dùl)

  1. (chemistry, etc.) element

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
dùil dhùil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “dùil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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