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”)
  • fuilchill f (“blood cell”)
  • fuil dhragain f (“dragon's-blood”)
  • fuil mhíosta f (“menstruation, menstrual fluid”)
  • fuilphlasma m (“blood plasma”)
  • fuil shróine f (“nose-bleeding”)
  • fuil talún f (“blood-wort”)
  • 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

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
  • "fuil" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “fuil (‘blood’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “at·tá (‘to be’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “fuil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “fuil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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

Mutation
Middle Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fuilḟuilfuil
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “fuil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

Descendants

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

Further reading
  • “fuil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Under “Valhalla” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
fuilfhuil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • 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
  • “fuil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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