soilsiú

Irish

Alternative forms

  • soillsiú, soillsiughadh, soilsiughadh[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish soilsigud.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

soilsiú m (genitive singular soilsithe)

  1. verbal noun of soilsigh
  2. illumination, lighting
  3. enlightenment (philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge)

Declension

Declension of soilsiú (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative soilsiú
vocative a shoilsiú
genitive soilsithe
dative soilsiú
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an soilsiú
genitive an tsoilsithe
dative leis an soilsiú
don soilsiú

Mutation

Mutated forms of soilsiú
radical lenition eclipsis
soilsiú shoilsiú
after an, tsoilsiú 		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. ^ “soilsiú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “soillsigud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 225, page 83

Further reading

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