fuil

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fˠɪlʲ/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fuil, from Old Irish fuil.

Noun

fuil f (genitive singular fola, nominative plural fola)

1. blood

Declension

Declension of fuil

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative fuil fola Vocative a fhuil a fhola Genitive fola fola Dative fuil fola

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an fhuil na fola Genitive na fola na bhfola Dative leis an bhfuil don fhuil leis na fola

Derived terms

• airgead fola m (“blood-money”)
• an braon fola m (“blue blood; manly spirit”)
• báire na fola m (“battle”)
• banc fola m (“blood bank”)
• boilg fola m pl (“glanders”)
• brú fola m (“blood pressure”)
• cíocras fola m (“bloodthirstiness”)
• cnapán fola m, téachtán fola m (“clot of blood”)
• coirpín fola m, fuilchoirpín m (“blood corpuscle”)
• col fola m, gao fola m (“consanguinity”)
• crithir fola f (“braxy”) (in sheep)
• crobh fola m (“geranium”)
• cú fola m, madra fola (“bloodhound”)
• cur fola m (“bleeding”)
• deamhan fola m (“vampire”)
• deontóir fola m (“blood donor”)
• doirteadh fola m (“bloodshed”)
• flosc fola m (“bloody flux”)
• fual fola m (“haematuria”)
• fuil a chur (“to bleed”)
• fuil dhragain f (“dragon's-blood”)
• fuil mhíosta f (“menstruation, menstrual fluid”)
• fuil shróine f (“nose-bleeding”)
• fuil talún f (“blood-wort”)
• fuilchill f (“blood cell”)
• fuilphlasma m (“blood plasma”)
• gan fuil (“bloodless”)
• ligean fola m, tarraingt fola f (“blood-letting”)
• lucht fola m (“bloodthirsty persons”)
• lus na fola m (“shepherd's purse”)
• mún fola m (“red murrain”)
• nimhiú fola m (“blood-poisoning”)
• rian fola m (“bloodstain”)
• rith fola m (“bloody flux, dysentery; haemorrhage”)
• scian fola f (“lancet”)
• soitheach fola m (“blood-vessel”)
• stór fola m (“blood-bank”)
• súmaire fola m (“blood-sucker, leech, vampire”)
• teocht na fola f (“blood temperature”)
• uaisle fola f (“noble blood”)

 

Etymology 2

From Old Irish fil, originally an imperative meaning ‘see’, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“see”), cognate with Welsh gweld (“to see”), Latin voltus (“face”). For the semantic development 'see here' > 'here is' compare French voici and voilà.

Verb

fuil

1. present indicative dependent analytic of bí

   An bhfuil sé anseo?

   Is he here?

   Creidim go bhfuil sí imithe

   I believe she is gone.

Derived terms

• níl

Etymology 3

Noun

fuil

1. Alternative form of fail

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fuil	fhuil	bhfuil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuil (‘blood’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “at·tá (‘to be’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fuil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fuil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fuil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fulʲ/

Noun

fuil f (i-stem, genitive fola)

1. blood
2. (by extension) a wound

Descendants

• Irish: fuil
• Manx: fuill
• Scottish Gaelic: fuil

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fuil	ḟuil	fuil pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to strike, wound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fulʲ/

Noun

fuil f (genitive folo)

1. blood
2. (by extension) a wound

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fuil	fuilL	fuiliH
Vocative	fuil	fuilL	fuiliH
Accusative	fuilN	fuilL	fuiliH
Genitive	foloH, folaH	foloH, folaH	fuileN
Dative	fuilL	fuilib	fuilib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• fuilchar (“bloodthirsty”)
• fuilech (“bloody, bloodstained”)
• fuilide (“of the nature of blood”)

 

Descendants

• Middle Irish: fuil
  • Irish: fuil
  • Manx: fuill
  • Scottish Gaelic: fuil

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fuil	ḟuil	fuil pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Under Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Valhalla”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fuil, from Old Irish fuil.

Noun

fuil f (genitive singular fala, no plural)

1. blood
2. family, tribe, kindred
3. bloodshed
4. wound
5. breeding
6. temper, nature

Derived terms

• casg-fala (“tourniquet”)
• dòrtadh-fala (“bloodshed”)
• fuil-mhìos (“menstruation”)
• is tighe fuil na bùrn (“blood is thicker than water”)
• leig fuil (“bleed”)
• neasgaidean fala (“haemorrhoids”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
fuil	fhuil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “fuil”, 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), “fuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language