slane
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
slane (plural slanes)
- (Ireland) A one-eared spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘Slanes’.
Anagrams edit
Manx edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish slán, from Proto-Celtic *slānos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
slane
- well, sane, unhurt
- whole, entire, undivided, inviolate
- intact, unbroken
- absolute (of ruler)
- perfect, complete
- unexpurgated (as edition)
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Interjection edit
slane
Mutation edit
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
slane | lane after "yn", tlane |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “slán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Serbo-Croatian edit
Adjective edit
slane
- inflection of slan:
Noun edit
slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)
Participle edit
slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)