sliotar

English

Alternative forms

• sliothar

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish sliotar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɪtər/, /ˈʃlɪtər/, [ʃlɪtɚ]

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

sliotar (plural sliotars)

1. A hard ball, similar in size to a baseball, used in hurling.

Anagrams

• Tailors, Triolas, oralist, storial, striola, tailor's, tailors

Irish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃlʲɪt̪ˠəɾˠ]

Noun

sliotar m (genitive singular sliotair, nominative plural sliotair)

1. (hurling) sliotar

Declension

Declension of sliotar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sliotar sliotair vocative a shliotair a shliotara genitive sliotair sliotar dative sliotar sliotair forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sliotar na sliotair genitive an tsliotair na sliotar dative leis an sliotar don sliotar leis na sliotair

Mutation

Mutated forms of sliotar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sliotar	shliotar after an, tsliotar	not applicable

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