súil – Irish noun declension

Irish noun forms of súil

Noun: súil

Gender: Fem

Forms without Article

Singular Nominativesúil
Singular Genitivesúile
Plural Nominativesúile
Plural Genitivesúl

Forms with Article

Singular Nominativean tsúil
Singular Genitivena súile
Plural Nominativena súile
Plural Genitivena súl

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like súil

súil,

Etymology

From Old Irish súil, from Proto-Celtic *sūle (“two suns”), dual of *sāwūl (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. The change in meaning in Irish is apparently due to the mythological view of the sun as the “eye of the sky”.

Verbs referencing "súil"

English Nouns sun, English Nouns south.

Translations