gèill
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See also: géill
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish gíallaid (“gives hostages, obeys, submits; serves, is in base clientship”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gèill (past ghèill, future gèillidh, verbal noun gèilleadh, past participle gèillte)
- surrender, submit, yield, cede, give up, comply
- serve, obey, do homage
- fail
- break gradually under strain or pressure
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
gèill | ghèill |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “gèill”, 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), “gíallaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language