siúil

See also: siùil

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃuːlʲ/[1]

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish siblaid (to walk),[2] a back-formation from the preterite of silid (to flow). Doublet of sil.

Verb

siúil (present analytic siúlann, future analytic siúlfaidh, verbal noun siúl, past participle siúlta)

  1. (ambitransitive) walk (move on the feet)
  2. tread
  3. pace (walk back and forth in a small distance)
Conjugation
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

siúil m

  1. vocative/genitive singular of siúl
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

siúil m

  1. (nonstandard) vocative/genitive singular of seol (bed, couch)

Mutation

Mutated forms of siúil
radical lenition eclipsis
siúil shiúil
after an, tsiúil
not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “siblaid, siblaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading