caille
See also: caillé
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
caille (plural cailles)
- multicoloured, spotted
- 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:
- A Versailles, à Versailles, / Sur la queue d’un’ grand’ vach’ caille.
- To Versailles, to Versailles, / On the tail of a big spotted cow.
- 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:
Noun edit
caille f (plural cailles)
Synonyms edit
- (Louisiana) perdrix
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
caille
- inflection of cailler:
Further reading edit
- “caille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.
Noun edit
caille n
Inflection edit
Neuter io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | cailleN | cailleL | cailleL |
Vocative | cailleN | cailleL | cailleL |
Accusative | cailleN | cailleL | cailleL |
Genitive | cailliL | cailleL | cailleN |
Dative | cailliuL | caillib | caillib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
caille f
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
caille | chaille | caille pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |