sùil

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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)

  1. (anatomy) eye
  2. vision, eyesight
  3. look, glance
  4. expectation, hope

Declension

Declension of sùil (type IVa feminine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative sùil sùilean
Genitive sùla shùilean
Dative sùil sùilean; sùilibh✝
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an) t-sùil (na) sùilean
Genitive (na) sùla (nan) sùilean
Dative (an) t-sùil (na) sùilean; sùilibh✝
Vocative shùil shùla; shùilean

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

  • Alternative genitive singular and plural: sùl

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of sùil
radical lenition
sùil shùil
after "an", t-sùil

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “sùil”, 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), “súil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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