cuil

See also: cùil and cúil

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cuil (“fly; flea, gnat”), 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 (slakʻ, “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
singular plural
nominative cuil cuileanna
vocative a chuil a chuileanna
genitive cuile cuileanna
dative cuil cuileanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chuil na cuileanna
genitive na cuile na gcuileanna
dative leis an gcuil
don chuil 		leis na cuileanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cuil
radical lenition eclipsis
cuil chuil gcuil

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

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

Feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative cuil cuilL cuiliH
vocative cuil cuilL cuiliH
accusative cuilN cuilL cuiliH
genitive coloH, colaH coloH, colaH cuileN
dative cuilL cuilib cuilib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: cuil, cuileóc

Mutation

Mutation of cuil
radical lenition nasalization
cuil chuil cuil
pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading

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