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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish síl (“seed (of plants and animals); cause, origin; race, progeny, descendants; offspring, breed; act of breeding”).
Noun
sìol m (genitive singular sìl, plural sìl)
- seed (various senses)
- brood, descendants, progeny
- lineage, breed, race, ancestry
- tribe, clan
- spawn, roe (of fish)
- corn
- oats
- sprat
Derived terms
- cealla-sìl (“spermatozoon”)
- sìolmhor (“prolific, fertile, generative, fruitful; abounding in seed; productive, substantial”)
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “sìol”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “síl”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language