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saoil
saoil
Irish
Alternative forms
- saoghail (obsolete)
Noun
saoil
- genitive singular of saol
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| saoil | shaoil after an, tsaoil |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish saílid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɯːl/
Verb
saoil (past shaoil, future saoilidh, verbal noun saoilsinn, past participle saoilte)
- suppose, think, imagine
- Shaoil mi. ― I thought. I imagined.
- An saoil thu? ― Do you think?
- Shaoileadh duine. ― One should suppose.
- Shaoil e gur e nàmhaid a bh' ann. ― He thought he was an enemy.
- Nach saoil thu? ― Do you not think?
- ma shaoileas thu ― if you think or judge
- C' àit' an deach e, saoil thu? ― Where do you think he has gone.
- seem
Synonyms
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
- A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)