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tuill

tuill

Irish

Verb

tuill (present analytic tuilleann, future analytic tuillfidh, verbal noun tuilleamh, past participle tuillte)

  1. to earn
    • 1938, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”[1]:
      Do thuill sí an ainm sin mar ni raibh sa bhaile mhór aon chailín comh deas comh maordha léi.
      She earned that name because there was in the city no girl as pretty and as dignified as she.
  2. to deserve

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tuill thuill dtuill
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. M. L. Sjoestedt-Jonval, 1936, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, p. 193.
  • do·slí” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • "tuill" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

tuill m

  1. genitive singular of toll
  2. plural of toll