goile

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛlʲə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish gaile (“the stomach; belly, womb, bowels”).

Noun

goile m (genitive singular goile, nominative plural goilí or goileacha)

  1. (anatomy) stomach
  2. appetite
Declension
Declension of goile

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative goile goilí
Vocative a ghoile a ghoilí
Genitive goile goilí
Dative goile goilí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an goile na goilí
Genitive an ghoile na ngoilí
Dative leis an ngoile

don ghoile

 leis na goilí
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • a ghoile a bhaint de dhuine (“to spoil someone's appetite”)
  • aigéad goile (“stomach acid”)
  • béal an ghoile (“pit of stomach”)
  • cailleach ghoile (“tapeworm”)
  • calcadh goile (“constipation”)
  • casacht ghoile (“stomach-cough”)
  • do ghoile a bheith agat (“to have a good appetite”)
  • do ghoile a dhéanamh (“to whet one's appetite; to go for a constitutional”)
  • fead ghoile (“shrill sound in breathing”)
  • fiabhras goile, othras goile (“gastric fever, ulcer”)
  • gaoth ar ghoile (“wind in stomach”)
  • gaoth i ngoile (“flatulence”)
  • goile a bheith agat do rud (“to be able to stomach something”)
  • goile an leabhair, goile duilleach (“(ruminant's) third stomach, manyplies, psalterium”)
  • goile na bhfeoirlingí (“(ruminant's) second stomach, reticulum”)
  • goiligh (“gut”, verb)
  • goiliúil (“having an appetite; appetizing”, adjective)
  • iompú goile, taom goile (“stomach upset”)
  • log an ghoile (“pit of stomach”)
  • othras goile (“gastric ulcer”)
  • péist ghoile (“mawworm”)
  • rud a chur ar do ghoile (“to eat or drink something; to burden one's stomach with something”)
  • tinneas bhéal an ghoile (“(pain of) indigestion”)
  • tinneas goile, pian ghoile (“stomach-ache”)
  • tiontú goile (“stomach upset, vomiting”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

goile

  1. present subjunctive analytic of goil

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
goile ghoile ngoile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "goile" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “gaile” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “goile” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “goile” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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