eól, eol, iúl

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knowledge, guidance 37 11, 46 10; e. d’fhagháil ar 18 8; ní hiul cam 18 2; e. do thabhairt damh ar 69 23; beir e. damh 52 1; long gan iul 95 11; rug cách an t-iul 85 3; gan mé ar an iul 90 8; ní heol soi-dhénimh 67 4; do-ním iul díreach 8 1; dírighim iul nimhe do 93 9; do-ním iul isteach romhat 63 10; tug m’fhearg eol amach made its way out 95 20; is iul doiligh é 66 36; sirim an t-eol duit 66 23; fear (an) iuil 63 10, 84 3; beach eoil 63 24 n; san iul on the road 96 5; a mholadh ní hé as eol 58 6; is e. damh sin (do dhéanamh). I know how to, I can, do that 71 11, 24 P 8 228; is eol uaim é 5 5 n.;

Aithdioghluim Dána: A Miscellany of Irish Bardic Poetry, Historical and Religious, including the Historical Poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Vol II, Translations, Notes, Vocabulary. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

only in phrases like as eól dó (c. vn.), he knows how to, 337, 580, 733, 2001, 5991, 6143, etc. Hence eólaighe, a guide, 569. Al. eólach, 2077.

Desiderius, otherwise called Sgáthán an Chrábhaidh. Author: Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire. Editor: Thomas F. O’Rahilly.

knowledge, knowledge of the way, path, guidance, etc.  'track' 'path': iúl dénta ag cléir, the poets have made a track, 805; triar...ar iúl éinfhir, three, one after the other, 894; go rugas-sa an t-iúl díreach, until I took the straight path, 1208.  'true information': don iúl, 1946; an t-iúl, 2195; fear a hiúil, a man who knows her, 2313.  Other uses: craobh eóil, a guiding branch, 1241; lucht iúil, guides, 1622, cf. fear th'eóil, the man who guides you, 3497. See also damh eóil [found under 'Poems on the O'Reilly's listing for damh. Eds.]

Poems on the O'Reillys. Editor: James Carney.

(96), tosach eoil fa fhíon ag 4129; fuair aithne a heoil 2437 n; mearbhall fa eol tíre ar 4382; ní heol damh bheith I do not know how to be 962.

The Book of O'Hara: Leabhar Í Eadhra. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.