dìol

See also: diol and díol

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• dìoghail

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃiːlˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dílaid, from díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (see below).

Verb

dìol (past dhìol, future dìolaidh, verbal noun dìoladh, past participle dìolte)

1. avenge, take revenge
2. compensate, render, reward, requite

Derived terms

• ath-dhìol (“recompense, refund, repay, requite”)
• dìoghaltach (“revengeful, vengeful, vindictive”)
• dìoghaltas (“revenge, vengeance”)

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Old Irish díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (from do·lá (“rejects, remits (a debt)”), from Proto-Celtic *dī-layeti (“throw away”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“loosen, release”)) and dìoghail, from Old Irish dígal (“vengeance”) (from Proto-Celtic *dī-galā).

Noun

dìol m (genitive singular dìola, no plural)

1. recompense, satisfaction, retribution
2. reward, pay, hire
3. satiety, sufficiency
4. object, end proposed
5. fate, destiny
6. the act of weaning
7. condition, state
8. complement, proportion
9. use
10. selling
11. restitution

Adjective

dìol

1. worthy, sufficient

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “dìol”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “díl”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dílaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language