slighe

Irish

Noun

slighe f (genitive singular slighe or sligheadh, nominative plural slighte or slighthe)

1. Superseded spelling of slí.

Declension

Archaic forms:

Declension of slighe

Fifth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative slighe slighte Vocative a shlighe a shlighte Genitive sligheadh slighte Dative slighidh slighte

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tslighe na slighte Genitive na sligheadh na slighte Dative leis an tslighidh don tslighidh leis na slighte

Alternative plural form: slighthe

Mutation

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish slige.

Noun

slighe f (genitive singular slighe, plural slighean)

1. path, trail, track, route, way, journey, road

Derived terms

• eadar-shligheach (“intercurrent”)
• ioma-shlighe (“maze, labyrinth”)
• letheach-slighe (“halfway, midway”)
• seach-shlighe (“diversion, detour”)
• Slighe Chlann Uisnich (“Milky Way”)

 

Mutation

Mutation of slighe

radical	lenition
slighe	shlighe after "an", t-slighe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language