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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish súil, from Primitive Irish *sūli, alteration of Proto-Celtic *sūle (“suns”), dual of *sūlos, genitive of *sāwol (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The change in meaning in Irish is apparently due to the mythological view of the sun as the “eye of the sky”.
Pronunciation
Noun
sùil f (genitive sùla, plural sùilean, genitive plural sùl)
- (anatomy) eye
- vision, eyesight
- look, glance
- expectation, hope
Declension
Declension of sùil (type IVa feminine noun)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| sùil |
shùil
after "an", t-sùil
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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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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “sùil”, 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), “súil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language