síol

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See also: sìol and siół

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish síl (seed),[1] from Proto-Celtic *sīlom (compare Welsh hil), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (to sow) (compare Latin sēmen (seed), Old English sāwan (to sow)).

The verb is from Old Irish sílaid.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

síol m (genitive singular síl, nominative plural síolta)

  1. (agriculture, botany) seed
  2. (biology) semen, sperm
    Synonym: seamhan
  3. offspring, progeny, descendants; race

Declension

Declension of síol (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative síol síolta
vocative a shíl a shíolta
genitive síl síolta
dative síol síolta
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an síol na síolta
genitive an tsíl na síolta
dative leis an síol
don síol
leis na síolta

Derived terms

Verb

síol (present analytic síolann, future analytic síolfaidh, verbal noun síoladh, past participle síolta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of síolaigh (seed, sow; disseminate, spread)

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of síol
radical lenition eclipsis
síol shíol
after an, tsíol
not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “síl”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sílaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 39
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

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