cuil
See also: cùil and cúil
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cuil (“fly; flea, gnat”), from Proto-Celtic *kulis (compare Scottish Gaelic cuileag, Breton kelien, Welsh cylion), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló- (compare Latin culex (“gnat”), Old Armenian սլաք (slakʿ, “roasting spit”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪlʲ/
Noun
cuil f (genitive singular cuile, nominative plural cuileanna)
- fly, bug
Declension
Declension of cuil
Second declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- agairg na gcuileanna
- bréagchuil
- cuileog
- cuil fhearnóige
- urchuil
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cuil | chuil | gcuil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cuil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “cuil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “cuil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kulis, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kulʲ/
Noun
cuil f (genitive unattested)
- fly
- (sometimes, perhaps) flea, gnat
Inflection
Feminine i-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cuil | cuilL | cuiliH |
Vocative | cuil | cuilL | cuiliH |
Accusative | cuilN | cuilL | cuiliH |
Genitive | coloH, colaH | coloH, colaH | cuileN |
Dative | cuilL | cuilib | cuilib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: cuil, cuileóc
- Irish: cuil, cuileog
- Manx: quill, quaillag
- Scottish Gaelic: cuileag
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
cuil | chuil | cuil pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language