tuill

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuillid, from Old Irish ·tuilli, prototonic form of do·slí.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

tuill (present analytic tuilleann, future analytic tuillfidh, verbal noun tuilleamh, past participle tuillte)

  1. to earn
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Do thuill sí an ainm sin mar ni raibh sa bhaile mhór aon chailín comh deas comh maordha léi.
      She earned that name because there was in the city no girl as pretty and as dignified as she.
  2. to deserve

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuill
radical lenition eclipsis
tuill thuill dtuill

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·slí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • tuill”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tuillim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 764
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tul͈ʲ]

Adjective

tuill

  1. inflection of toll:
    1. masculine vocative/genitive singular
    2. feminine accusative/dative singular
    3. neuter genitive singular
    4. neuter nominative plural

Noun

tuill

  1. inflection of toll:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

Mutation

Mutation of tuill
radical lenition nasalization
tuill thuill tuill
pronounced with /d-/

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

tuill m

  1. inflection of toll:
    1. genitive singular
    2. plural