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See also: sa'ill

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish saill (salted meat, bacon).

Noun

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saill f (genitive singular saille)

  1. salted meat
  2. fatty meat, fat, lard
Declension
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Declension of saill (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative saill
vocative a shaill
genitive saille
dative saill
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an tsaill
genitive na saille
dative leis an tsaill
don tsaill
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish saillid (he salts, cures), from saill.

Verb

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saill (present analytic sailleann, future analytic saillfidh, verbal noun sailleadh, past participle saillte)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) salt, cure
  2. (figuratively, of speech) season
  3. (figuratively, of person) grossly overcharge, fleece
Conjugation
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Derived terms
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of saill
radical lenition eclipsis
saill shaill
after an, tsaill
not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *salnā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (salt).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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saill f (genitive saille)

  1. salted meat, especially bacon

Inflection

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative saillL
Vocative saillL
Accusative saillN
Genitive sailleH
Dative saillL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: saill
  • Manx: sahll
  • Scottish Gaelic: saill

Mutation

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Mutation of saill
radical lenition nasalization
saill ṡaill unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish saill (salted meat, bacon).

Noun

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saill f (genitive singular saille)

  1. fat, grease, suet
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish saillid (he salts, cures), from saill.

Verb

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saill (past shaill, future saillidh, verbal noun sailleadh, past participle saillte)

  1. pickle, cure, preserve, salt

Mutation

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Mutation of saill
radical lenition
saill shaill
after "an", t-saill

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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