fuil

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fˠɪlʲ/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fuil, from Old Irish fuil.

Noun

fuil f (genitive singular fola, nominative plural fola)

  1. blood
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish fil, originally an imperative meaning ‘see’, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“see”), cognate with Welsh gweld (“to see”), Latin voltus (“face”). For the semantic development 'see here' > 'here is' compare French voici and voilà.

Verb

fuil

  1. present indicative dependent analytic of bí
    An bhfuil sé anseo?
    Is he here?
    Creidim go bhfuil sí imithe
    I believe she is gone.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

fuil

  1. Alternative form of fail

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fuil fhuil bhfuil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "fuil" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “fuil (‘blood’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “at·tá (‘to be’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “fuil” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “fuil” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fuil.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fulʲ/

Noun

fuil f (i-stem, genitive fola)

  1. blood
  2. (by extension) a wound

Descendants

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fuil ḟuil fuil
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • “fuil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to strike, wound”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fulʲ/

Noun

fuil f (genitive folo)

  1. blood
  2. (by extension) a wound

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fuil ḟuil fuil
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • “fuil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Under “Valhalla” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fuil, from Old Irish fuil.

Noun

fuil f (genitive singular fala, no plural)

  1. blood
  2. family, tribe, kindred
  3. bloodshed
  4. wound
  5. breeding
  6. temper, nature

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
fuil fhuil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “fuil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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