slí

See also: sli, SLI, and ŝli

Irish

Alternative forms

• slighe (superseded)

Etymology

From Middle Irish slige.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃlʲiː/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃl̠ʲiː/

Noun

slí f (genitive singular slí, nominative plural slite)

1. way
2. road, track

   Synonyms: bealach, bóthar, ród

3. route, passage
4. course, direction
5. distance, journey
6. room to proceed
7. room, space
8. right, normal, course of action
9. means, method
10. way, manner
11. set (of tools)

Declension

Declension of slí

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative slí slite Vocative a shlí a shlite Genitive slí slite Dative slí slite

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tslí na slite Genitive na slí na slite Dative leis an tslí don tslí leis na slite

Derived terms

• ceart slí (“right of way”)
• géill slí (“yield right of way”)
• malairt slí (“detour”)
• míle de shlí (“mile”)
• míle slí (“mile”)
• slí bheatha (“livelihood”)
• slí rothar (“cycleway”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
slí	shlí after an, tslí	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sliġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 654
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “slí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “slí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 40

Tày

Tày cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : slí

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ. From Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH). Cognate with Thai สี่ (sìi), Northern Thai ᩈᩦ᩵, Lao ສີ່ (sī), Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii¹), Tai Dam ꪎꪲ꪿, Shan သီႇ (sìi), Tai Nüa ᥔᥤᥱ (sǐ), Ahom 𑜏𑜣 (sī), Bouyei sis, Zhuang seiq.

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɬi˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [θi˦]

Numeral

slí

1. four

References

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội