sooill

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish súil, from Primitive Irish *sūli, alteration of Proto-Celtic *sūle (“suns”), dual of *sūlos, genitive of *sāwol (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The change in meaning in Irish is apparently due to the mythological view of the sun as the “eye of the sky”.

Pronunciation

Noun

sooill f (genitive singular sooilley, plural sooillyn)

  1. eye

Derived terms

  • lagg-hooillagh (“hollow-eyed”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutation of sooill
radical lenition eclipsis
sooill hooill
after "yn", tooill		 unchanged

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

References

  1. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 72
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