seol

See also: seòl

Irish

Alternative forms

  • seól (obsolete)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish séol (sail; bed, couch; weaving implement, loom; course; manner, way), borrowed from Old English seġl, seġel, from Proto-Germanic *seglą.

Noun

seol m (genitive singular seoil, nominative plural seolta)

  1. (sailing) sail
    seol a ardú/thógáilto hoist sail
    seol a ísliúto lower sail
    seol a leaganto strike sail
  2. (literary) covering, canopy
  3. drift, trend; course, direction; flow, motion
  4. (crafts) loom
  5. (literary, uncountable) bed, couch
Declension
Declension of seol (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative seol seolta
vocative a sheoil a sheolta
genitive seoil seolta
dative seol seolta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an seol na seolta
genitive an tseoil na seolta
dative leis an seol
don seol
leis na seolta
Derived terms
  • bean seoil (woman in childbirth)
  • leaba luí seoil (childbed)
  • long seoil (sailing ship)
  • luí seoil (lying in)
  • péist an tseoil (sail-fish)
  • ribín seoil (reef-point, gasket)
  • seol bairr (topsail)
  • seol cinn (jib)
  • seol cleithe (gaff-sail)
  • seol deiridh (mizzen-sail)
  • seol dobróin (pall of sorrow)
  • seol doininne (storm-sail, trysail)
  • seol gaoithe móire (storm-sail, trysail)
  • seol gearr (shortened sail)
  • seol giortach (shortened sail)
  • seol innill (power-loom)
  • seol láimhe (hand-loom)
  • seol mara (tidal motion of sea)
  • seol mór (mainsail)
  • seol spreoide (sprit-sail)
  • seol stagh (staysail)
  • seol tosaigh (foresail)
  • seoléadach (sailcloth)
  • soitheach seoil (sailing vessel)

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish seólaid (to sail), from Old Irish séol (sail, noun).

Verb

seol (present analytic seolann, future analytic seolfaidh, verbal noun seoladh, past participle seolta) (ambitransitive)

  1. sail
    Synonym: déan seoltóireacht
  2. send, dispatch; direct, guide
  3. address
  4. conduct, handle
    Synonyms: láimhseáil, stiúir
  5. (electricity, heat) conduct
  6. (sailing) navigate
    Synonym: loingsigh
  7. ship (of goods)
  8. (book, CD) launch
    Synonym: lainseáil
Conjugation
Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of seol
radical lenition eclipsis
seol sheol
after an, tseol
not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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