goil
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
goil (plural goils)
- Pronunciation spelling of girl.
- 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 7:
- “You goils ain't gonna be flyin' today.” Our cab driver was Maxwell Solomon, Hack Number 30756M.
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
goil (strong nominative masculine singular goiler, comparative goiler, superlative am goilsten)
- (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of geil.
- 2009, Christian Ulmen, Für Uwe[1], Rowohlt, →ISBN:
- Wie goil das war! Papa war genau wie Herrn Immer.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes[edit]
Sometimes associated with the skinhead scene from the typical use of -oi- (as in deutsch → doitsch; but coming from English oi).
Irish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
goil (present analytic goileann, future analytic goilfidh, verbal noun gol, past participle goilte)
Conjugation[edit]
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Synonyms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Either a rapid-speech variant of gabháil or a variant of dul with assimilation of /d̪ˠ/ to the /ɡ/ of the particle ag.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
goil
- (Connacht, Ulster) verbal noun of gabh (in the meaning "go") and of téigh.
Synonyms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
goil | ghoil | ngoil |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *gali-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“to dribble; gush forth; spring; squirt; throw”). Compare also goile (“stomach, appetite”).
Verb[edit]
goil (past ghoil, future goilidh, verbal noun goil, past participle goilte)
Noun[edit]
goil f
- verbal noun of goil
Further reading[edit]
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “goil”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN
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