cuil

See also: cùil and cúil

Irish

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Celtic *kulis (compare Scottish Gaelic cuileag, Breton kelien, Welsh cylion), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló- (compare Latin culex (“gnat”), Old Armenian սլաք (slakʿ, “roasting spit”)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɪlʲ/

Noun

cuil f (genitive singular cuile, nominative plural cuileanna)

  1. fly, bug

Declension
Declension of cuil

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) cuileanna
Vocative a chuil a chuileanna
Genitive cuile cuileanna
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) cuileanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chuil na cuileanna
Genitive na cuile na gcuileanna
Dative leis an gcuil

don chuil

 leis na cuileanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kulis, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kulʲ/

Noun

cuil f (genitive unattested)

  1. fly
  2. (sometimes, perhaps) flea, gnat

Inflection

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    • Manx: quill, quaillag
    • Scottish Gaelic: cuileag

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) chuil Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
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