dall

Compare French dalle, dallage.

dall (plural dalls)

1. A tile with an incised surface.
   • 1872, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, page 646:

     […] for such machine-made slate "dalls," or tiles, as perhaps we might call them, would soon be valued by the architect and builder for the roofs of many other classes of buildings as well as ecclesiastical ones.

   • 1872, The Engineer:

     […] tiling. Thus arose those admirable roofs known in France as "en dallage," of which one most instructive example to both engineer and architect may be seen in those of the clerestory roofs of Nôtre Dame at Paris. The "dalls" being hand wrought […]

• dalls

From Middle Breton and Old Breton dall, from Proto-Brythonic *dall, from Proto-Celtic *dallos.

dall

1. blind

Deverbal from dallar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdaʎ]

dall m (plural dalls)

1. math (what is gathered from mowing)
2. foremath
3. mowing (act of mowing)
4. billhook

• (mowing): dallada
• (billhook): podall

• redall

• “dall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Irish dall,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *dallos (compare Welsh dall); possibly cognate with Gothic 𐌳𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍃 (dwals, “foolish, stupid”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠaul̪ˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɑːl̪ˠ/^[2]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠal̪ˠ/^[3]

dall (genitive singular masculine daill, genitive singular feminine daille, plural dalla, comparative daille)

1. blind; blinded
2. dull, uninformed; in the dark
3. dazed, stupefied

dall m (genitive singular daill, nominative plural daill)

1. blind person
2. dull, uninformed, person
3. dimness; gloom, obscurity

• idir dall is dorchadas (“at dusk”, literally “between the dim and the dark”)

dall (present analytic dallann, future analytic dallfaidh, verbal noun dalladh, past participle dallta) (transitive)

1. blind
2. bedim; dazzle; daze, stupefy
3. darken; block, obscure (an opening)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish dall, from Proto-Celtic *dallos (compare Welsh dall); possibly cognate with Gothic 𐌳𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍃 (dwals, “foolish, stupid”).

• IPA^(key): /t̪aul̪ˠ/
• (Islay, Mid Argyll) IPA^(key): [t̪al̪ˠː]

dall (comparative doille)

1. blind
2. ignorant
3. obscure
4. dark
5. misled
6. puzzled

• dall air faclan (“dyslexic”)
• spot dall (“blind spot”)

• doille (“blindness”)

dall (past dhall, future dallaidh, verbal noun dalladh, past participle dallta)

1. blind, make blind
2. mislead
3. deceive
4. puzzle

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “dall”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Welsh dall, from Proto-Brythonic *dall, from Proto-Celtic *dallos. Cognate with Breton dall, Irish dall, Scottish Gaelic dall.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /daɬ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /da(ː)ɬ/
• Rhymes: -aɬ

dall (feminine singular dall, plural deillion, not comparable)

1. blind

• lliwddall (“color blind”)
• madfall (“blindworm, slow-worm”)
• pwl-dall (“blindworm, slow-worm”)

dall m (plural deillion or deilliad, feminine dalles)

1. blind person

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dall”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies