seòl

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See also: seol and séol

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)

  1. sail

Derived terms

Verb

seòl (past sheòl, future seòlaidh, verbal noun seòladh, past participle seòlta)

  1. sail, cruise
  2. aim, direct, guide, instruct, direct, govern
  3. navigate

Conjugation

Participles
Tense \ Voice Active Passive
Present a' seòladh --
Past sheòl sheòladh
Future seòlaidh seòlar
Conditional sheòladh sheòltadh

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of seòl
radical lenition
seòl sheòl
after "an", t-seòl

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

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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