díol

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See also: diol and dìol

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish dílaid, from 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).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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díol (present analytic díolann, future analytic díolfaidh, verbal noun díol, past participle díolta)

  1. sell
  2. (Munster, Ulster) pay
    Synonym: íoc
    • 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, § 253, page 91:
      ə Nʹiəl̥ət(ʹ) ʃə
      [dhá ndíolfadh sé]
      if he were to pay
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Fan timpall an tighe agus má’s bean mise a dhíolann ní bheidh tusa aon nídh chun deireadh leis an scéal.
      Stay around the house, and if I'm a woman who pays, you won’t be set back in the matter.

Conjugation

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Noun

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díol m (genitive singular as substantive díola, genitive as verbal noun díolta)

  1. verbal noun of díol
  2. selling, sale

Declension

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As substantive
As verbal noun

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
díol dhíol ndíol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 82
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 14

Further reading

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