dìol

• dìoghail

• IPA^(key): /tʃiːlˠ/

From Old Irish dílaid, from díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (see below).

dìol (past dhìol, future dìolaidh, verbal noun dìoladh, past participle dìolte)

1. avenge, take revenge
2. compensate, render, reward, requite

• ath-dhìol (“recompense, refund, repay, requite”)
• dìoghaltach (“revengeful, vengeful, vindictive”)
• dìoghaltas (“revenge, vengeance”)

From a conflation of Old Irish díl (“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”) (from do·lá (“rejects, remits (a debt)”), from Proto-Celtic *dī-layeti (“throw away”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- (“loosen, release”)) and dìoghail, from Old Irish dígal (“vengeance”) (from Proto-Celtic *dī-galā).

dìol m (genitive singular dìola, no plural)

1. recompense, satisfaction, retribution
2. reward, pay, hire
3. satiety, sufficiency
4. object, end proposed
5. fate, destiny
6. the act of weaning
7. condition, state
8. complement, proportion
9. use
10. selling
11. restitution

dìol

1. worthy, sufficient

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “díl” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “dílaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.