TORTHAÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
sotal, m. (gs. -ail). Pride, arrogance; cockiness, impudence. Fear sotail, arrogant man. Tá ~ ann, he is arrogant, assumptive. A leithéid de shotal! Such cheek! Beagán sotail uait! Less impudence from you! Bheith faoi shotal do dhuine, to be subservient to s.o., to accept insolence from s.o. Ní raibh mé faoi shotal ar bith dó, I deferred to him in nothing. Ná tabhair ~ ar bith dó, speak up to him. Níl siad faoi shotal dá chéile, they are not diffident about answering each other back. S.a. muir11. (Var:~acht f, ~tas m)