eitil
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse eitill (“nodule”), from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling”) (compare Old High German eiz (“abscess”), Dutch etter (“pus”), Saterland Frisian eitel (“fast, raging”), English oats), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eid- (“to swell”) (compare Latin aemidus (“swollen, protuberant”), Old Church Slavonic ꙗдъ (jadŭ, “poison”), Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum, “to swell”), այտ (ayt, “cheek”), Sanskrit इन्दु (índu, “water drop”).
Pronunciation
Noun
eitil m (genitive singular eitils, plural eitlar)
Declension
Declension of eitil | ||||
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m21 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | eitil | eitilin | eitlar | eitlarnir |
accusative | eitil | eitilin | eitlar | eitlarnar |
dative | eitli | eitlinum | eitlum | eitlunum |
genitive | eitils | eitilsins | eitla | eitlanna |
Derived terms
Irish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English ethyl, from German Ethyl.
Noun
eitil f (genitive singular eitile)
Declension
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Irish etelaigid, etellaigidir (“flies”, verb), from etel, etell f (“flying, fluttering; flight”).
Verb
eitil (present analytic eitlíonn, future analytic eitleoidh, verbal noun eitilt, past participle eitilte)
- (intransitive) fly, flutter
- (intransitive, of flame) flicker
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis (except an)
Derived terms
Pronunciation
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
eitil | n-eitil | heitil | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eitil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “etel(l)aigid(ir)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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