saol

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish saegul (“lifetime, world”), from Latin saeculum.

Pronunciation

Noun

saol m (genitive singular saoil, nominative plural saolta)

  1. life, lifetime; time; world
    an saol mór ― the whole world; all people, everyone
    1. period of existence
    2. state of existence
    3. conditions of life of a period
    4. way or sphere of life
    5. the world of enjoyment
    6. the world of human affairs
    7. all creation
    8. all people

Declension
Declension of saol

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative saol saolta
Vocative a shaoil a shaolta
Genitive saoil saolta
Dative saol saolta

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an saol na saolta
Genitive an tsaoil na saolta
Dative leis an saol

don saol

 leis na saolta

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • árachas saoil (“life insurance”)
  • gearrshaolach (“short-lived; ephemeral, transitory”, adjective)
  • saolach, saolmhar (“long-lived”, adjective)
  • saolacht f (“survival”)
  • saolaí m (“tenant for life”)
  • saolaigh (“be born; deliver; give length of life”, verb)
  • saol gnéis m (“sex life”)
  • saolré f (“life cycle”)
  • saolta (“worldly, mundane; lay, secular; respectable”, adjective)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
saol shaol
after an, tsaol		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "saol" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “saegul” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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