fuil

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish fuil, from Old Irish fuil, from Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-.

Noun

fuil f (genitive singular fola, nominative plural fola)

  1. blood
Declension
Declension of fuil

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fuil fola
Vocative a fhuil a fhola
Genitive fola fola
Dative fuil fola

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhuil na fola
Genitive na fola na bhfola
Dative leis an bhfuil

don fhuil

 leis na fola
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.
Alternative forms
Derived terms

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

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fuil, from Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fulʲ/

Noun

fuil f (i-stem, genitive fola)

  1. blood
  2. (by extension) a wound

Descendants
  • Irish: fuil
  • Manx: fuill
  • Scottish Gaelic: fuil

Mutation
Middle Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fuilḟuilfuil
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
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 *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
Feminine i-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative fuil fuilL fuiliH
Vocative fuil fuilL fuiliH
Accusative fuilN fuilL fuiliH
Genitive foloH, folaH foloH, folaH fuileN
Dative fuilL fuilib fuilib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
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

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English fole (“fool”), from Old French fol, from Latin follis. Cognate with English fool.

Noun

fuil (plural fuils)

  1. fool

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish fuil, from Old Irish fuil, from Proto-Celtic *wolis, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ful/

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
fuilfhuil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “fuil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fuil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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