Irish

Noun

fuil f ‎(genitive singular fola, nominative plural fola)

1. blood

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish fil, originally an imperative meaning 'see', from Proto-Indo-European *wel- ‎(“see”), cognate with 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.

Derived terms

• níl

Mutation

References

• “fuil (‘blood’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “at·tá (‘to be’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fuil.

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

References

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

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fulʲ/

Noun

fuil f ‎(genitive folo)

1. blood
2. (by extension) a wound

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• fuilchar ‎(“bloodthirsty”)
• fuilech ‎(“bloody, bloodstained”)
• fuilide ‎(“of the nature of blood”)

Descendants

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

Mutation

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish fuil.

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

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