dùil

See also: dúil

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːl/, [d̪̊uːl]

Etymology 1

MacBain suggests a relation to Ancient Greek θυμός (thumós, “soul, desire, passion”) and Lithuanian dūmas (“smoke”) (NB: Perhaps erroneously, MacBain glosses the Lithuanian as dumas (“thought”)). Regardless, if true, it would be from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”).

Noun

dùil f (genitive singular dùile, nominative plural dùilean)

1. hope, expectation, expectancy, prospect
2. intention, thought

Derived terms

• briseadh-dùil
• mealladh-dùil

Etymology 2

From Old Irish dúil, dúl. MacBain relates this to Sanskrit धूलि (dhūli, “dust”) and Latin fūlīgō (“soot”), however Stokes suggests a relation to German zeugen (“to beget, to bear witness”) and Latin dūcō (“to pull, to guide”) to explain dialectic na dùil (“poor creatures!”) (cf. Irish dúil (“creature”)) and dùileag (“a term of affection for a girl”).

Noun

dùil f (genitive singular dùile, nominative plural dùilean or dùiltean, genitive plural dùl)

1. (chemistry, etc.) element

Mutation

Mutation of dùil

radical	lenition
dùil	dhùil

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

References

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “dùil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN