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

Derived terms

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

References
  • 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
  • “súil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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