sùil

See also: súil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish súil, from Primitive Irish *sūli, alteration of Proto-Celtic *sūle (“suns”), dual of *sūlos, genitive of *sāwol (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The change in meaning in Irish is apparently due to the mythological view of the sun as the “eye of the sky”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪uːl/

Noun

sùil f (genitive sùla, plural sùilean, genitive plural sùl)

1. (anatomy) eye
2. vision, eyesight
3. look, glance
4. expectation, hope

Synonyms

• (glance): plathadh

Derived terms

• dà-shùileach (“binocular”, adjective)
• droch shùil
• neul-sùla
• sùil air ais

 

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “sùil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “súil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language