dìol

• dìoghail

• IPA^(key): /tʃiːlˠ/

From Old Irish dílaid, from díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (see below).

dìol (past dhìol, future dìolaidh, verbal noun dìoladh, past participle dìolte)

1. avenge, take revenge
2. compensate, render, reward, requite

• ath-dhìol (“recompense, refund, repay, requite”)
• dìoghaltach (“revengeful, vengeful, vindictive”)
• dìoghaltas (“revenge, vengeance”)

From a conflation of Old Irish díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (from do·lá (“rejects, remits (a debt)”), from Proto-Celtic *dī-layeti (“throw away”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“loosen, release”)) and dìoghail, from Old Irish dígal (“vengeance”) (from Proto-Celtic *dī-galā).

dìol m (genitive singular dìola, no plural)

1. recompense, satisfaction, retribution
2. reward, pay, hire
3. satiety, sufficiency
4. object, end proposed
5. fate, destiny
6. the act of weaning
7. condition, state
8. complement, proportion
9. use
10. selling
11. restitution

dìol

1. worthy, sufficient

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “dìol”, 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), “díl”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dílaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language