sùil

See also: súil

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
  • IPA(key): /s̪uːl/

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 shùl (shùilean)
Dative sùil sùilean
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an) t-sùil (na) sùilean
Genitive (na) sùla (nan) sùl (sùilean)
Dative (an) t-sùil (na) sùilean
Vocative (a) shùil (a) shùla (shùilean)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
sùilshùil
after "an", t-sùil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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