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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cuil cuileanna
Vocative a chuil a chuileanna
Genitive cuile cuileanna
Dative cuil 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
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cuil chuil gcuil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cuil chuil cuil
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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