seòl

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See also: seol and séol

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

seòl m (genitive singular siùil, plural siùil)

  1. sail

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

seòl (past sheòl, future seòlaidh, verbal noun seòladh, past participle seòlta)

  1. sail, cruise
  2. aim, direct, guide, instruct, direct, govern
  3. navigate

Conjugation[edit]

Participles
Tense \ Voice Active Passive
Present a' seòladh --
Past sheòl sheòladh
Future seòlaidh seòlar
Conditional sheòladh sheòltadh

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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