sleá

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish sleg,[2] from Proto-Celtic *sligā, from the root of *sligeti (“to strike, hew”) (whence Old Irish sligid); cognate with Scottish Gaelic sleagh and Manx shleiy.

Pronunciation

Noun

sleá f (genitive singular sleá, nominative plural sleánna)

  1. spear, javelin, lance
    Synonyms: ga, lansa
  2. splinter
    Synonym: scealpóg

Declension

Declension of sleá (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sleá sleánna
vocative a shleá a shleánna
genitive sleá sleánna
dative sleá sleánna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tsleá na sleánna
genitive na sleá na sleánna
dative leis an tsleá
don tsleá 		leis na sleánna

Mutation

Mutated forms of sleá
radical lenition eclipsis
sleá shleá
after an, tsleá 		not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “sleá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sleg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 106, page 42

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