assyl
Manx
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish asal (“ass, she-ass”), from Latin asellus (“small or young donkey”).
Noun
editassyl m (genitive singular assyl, plural assylyn)
Derived terms
edit- assyl bwoirrin, laair assyl (“she-ass”)
- assyl feie, assyl oaldey (“wild ass”)
- caairt assyl (“donkey-cart”)
- collagh assyl (“jackass”)
- immanagh assyl (“donkey-driver”)
- lhiy assyl (“donkey-colt”)
- sharragh assyl (“donkey-foal”)
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “asal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language