saol
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish saegul (“lifetime, world”), from Latin saeculum.
Pronunciation
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Noun
saol m (genitive singular saoil, nominative plural saolta)
Declension
Declension of saol
Synonyms
Derived terms
- árachas saoil (“life insurance”)
- gearrshaolach (“short-lived; ephemeral, transitory”, adjective)
- saol gnéis m (“sex life”)
- saolach, saolmhar (“long-lived”, adjective)
- saolacht f (“survival”)
- saolaigh (“be born; deliver; give length of life”, verb)
- saolaí m (“tenant for life”)
- saolré f (“life cycle”)
- saolta (“worldly, mundane; lay, secular; respectable”, adjective)
- seansaol f (“old time(s)”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
saol | shaol after an, tsaol |
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) “saol”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saegul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language