About this phrase
The literal meaning of más é do thoil é is if it is your will but its actual meaning is please.
The phrase is constructed as follows:
- Más, is a conjunction má, meaning if, combined with the present tense of the copula is, meaning it is. In the spoken form, a sandhi event causes más to become máis under the influence of the following slender vowel.
- É is the third person, singular, masculine object pronoun meaning he or it.
- Do is the possessive adjective, second person, singular: your. It lenites, when followed by a lenitable consonant.
- Toil is a feminine noun that means will (in the sense of 'desire').
- É is again the third person, singular, masculine object pronoun.
Other ways of saying please
Le do thoil (with your will) occurs just as frequently más é do thoil é in everyday speech.
Plural forms are más é bhur dtoil é and le bhur dtoil.