Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• dìoghail

Verb

dìol ‎(past dhìol, future dìolaidh, verbal noun dìoladh, past participle dìolte)

1. avenge, take revenge
2. compensate, render, reward, requite

Derived terms

• ath-dhìol ‎(“recompense, refund, repay, requite”)
• dìoghaltach ‎(“revengeful, vengeful, vindictive”)
• dìoghaltas ‎(“revenge, vengeance”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish díl ‎(“satisfaction, paying, of a debt”), from do·lá ‎(“rejects, remits (a debt)”), from Proto-Celtic *di-layo- ‎(“throw away”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w- ‎(“loosen, release”).

Noun

dìol m ‎(genitive singular dìola, no plural)

1. recompense, satisfaction, retribution
2. reward, pay, hire
3. satiety, sufficiency
4. object, end proposed
5. fate, destiny
6. the act of weaning
7. condition, state
8. complement, proportion
9. use
10. selling
11. restitution

Adjective

dìol

1. worthy, sufficient

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
• “díl” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “dílaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.