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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish séol (“sail; bed, couch; weaving implement, loom; course; manner, way”), a borrowing from Old English seġl, seġel, from Proto-West Germanic *segl.
The verb is from Middle Irish seólaid.
Pronunciation
Noun
seòl m (genitive singular siùil, plural siùil)
- sail
Derived terms
Verb
seòl (past sheòl, future seòlaidh, verbal noun seòladh, past participle seòlta)
- sail, cruise
- aim, direct, guide, instruct, direct, govern
- navigate
Conjugation
- Participles
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| seòl |
sheòl
after "an", t-seòl
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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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