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slige

Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsliːə], [ˈsliːi]

Adjective

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slige

  1. inflection of slig:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish slice.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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slige f (genitive singular slige, nominative plural sligí)

  1. shell
  2. shard
  3. cresset, melting pot

Declension

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Declension of slige

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative slige sligí
Vocative a shlige a shligí
Genitive slige sligí
Dative slige sligí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tslige na sligí
Genitive na slige na sligí
Dative leis an tslige

don tslige

leis na sligí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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

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Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish slige, verbal noun of sligid (“to strike down, fell”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to smear; to creep”).

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Noun

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slige f (genitive sliged or slige, nominative plural sligeda)

  1. road, way, passage
    • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, lines 11, 13:
      Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. […] In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din chētgabāil, iss ed no·ithed.
      [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons. […] Each man who came along the passage would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he got at the first taking, it was that which he ate.

Declension

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As a d-stem

As an iā-stem

  • Genitive singular: slige
  • Accusative/dative singular: sligi

Descendants

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  • Irish: slí
  • Scottish Gaelic: slighe

Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
slige ṡlige unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish sligid (“to hit, beat”), a way being a stretch of land where the soil has been beaten down.[1]

Noun

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slige f (genitive slige)

  1. verbal noun of sligid: slaughter
  2. way, path
Inflection
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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative sligeL sligiL sligi
Vocative sligeL sligiL sligi
Accusative sligiN sligiL sligi
Genitive slige sligeL sligeN
Dative sligiL sligib sligib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
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Etymology 2

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Unknown. Perhaps related to adslig (“to tempt, entreat”), not related to slinn (“shingle, flat weapenhead, weaver's reed”).[2]

Noun

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slige f

  1. reed of a loom

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
slige ṡlige unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1974) “1 slige”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume R-S, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, pages S-133-34
  2. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1974) “2 slige”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume R-S, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page S-134

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish slice.

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Noun

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slige f (genitive singular slige, plural sligean or sligeachan)

  1. shell
  2. (nautical) hull (of a ship)
  3. bomb

Declension

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Declension of slige (class IId feminine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative slige sligean
Genitive slige shligean
Dative slige sligean; sligibh✝
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an) t-slige (na) sligean
Genitive (na) slige (nan) sligean
Dative (an) t-slige (na) sligean; sligibh✝
Vocative shlige shligean

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Declension of slige (class IId feminine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative slige sligeachan
Genitive slige shligeachan
Dative slige sligeachan; sligibh✝
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an) t-slige (na) sligeachan
Genitive (na) slige (nan) sligeachan
Dative (an) t-slige (na) sligeachan; sligibh✝
Vocative shlige shligeachan

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

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