- dearail
- poor, wretched, Irish dearóil, Early Irish deróil, feeble, Old Irish deróil, penuria, from der-, privative prefix (see deàrgnaidh), and óil, abundance, which Windisch has referred to *pâli-, a form of the root pl$$., pel, full, as in lán.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.