seòl

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
  • IPA(key): /ʃɔːɫ̪/

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