tuille

tuille
tuille, tuilleadh
more (n.), Irish tuille, tuilleadh, addition, tuilleamh, wages, addition, Early Irish tuilled, tuillem, addition, inf. to tuillim, enhance, deserve, as in Gaelic toill. Two words are mixed: to-eln-, deserve, and to-oln, much, more, Early Irish oll, great, huilliu, plus, *olniôs, root pol, pel, many, Greek $$Gpolús, Latin plus etc. (see iol-). Stokes equates the Old Irish uilliu, oll, with Latin pollere, which is from *pol-no-, root pol as above (Wharton). The Gaelic syntax of tuille shows its comparative force in tuille na (more than) as well as tuille agus, Irish tuilleadh agus (addition and).

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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