soilse

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠiːlʲʃə/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠəil̠ʲʃə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠʌl̠ʲʃə/

From Old Irish soilse (“brightness, light”).

soilse f or m (genitive singular soilse, nominative plural soilsí or soilseacha)

1. brightness, light
2. flash of lightning

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

soilse m pl

1. plural of solas

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “soilse”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “soilse”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “soilse”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From solus +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsol͈ʲsʲe/

soilse f

1. brightness. light
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22^b26

     Ná bíth i cobadlus doïb, ar atá torad la gnímu soilse .i. praemia aeterna ní ḟil immurgu acht infructuosa.

     Do not be in fellowship with them, for there is fruit with works of light, i.e. praemia aeterna. There is nothing [with works of darkness], however, save infructuosa.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 25^c6

     Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.

     Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.

soilse

1. feminine genitive singular of solus

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “soillse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language