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cuil

cuil

See also: cùil and cúil

Irish

Noun

cuil f (genitive singular cuile, nominative plural cuileanna)

  1. fly, bug

Declension

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.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kuli, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱuH-ló-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kulʲ/

Noun

cuil f (genitive cuile, nominative plural cuile)

  1. fly
  2. (sometimes, perhaps) flea, gnat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
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.