sùil

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”.

• IPA^(key): /s̪uːl/

sùil f (genitive sùla, plural sùilean, genitive plural sùl)

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

• Alternative genitive singular and plural: sùl

• (glance): plathadh

• 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