caille

See also: caillé

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quaille, from Late Latin quaccola.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʎ/

Noun

caille f (plural cailles)

  1. quail

Derived terms

References

  • Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎[2] (in French), Troyes

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaj/ ~ /kɑj/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

caille (plural cailles)

  1. multicoloured, spotted
    • 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:
      A Versailles, à Versailles, / Sur la queue d’un’ grand’ vach’ caille.
      To Versailles, to Versailles, / On the tail of a big spotted cow.

Noun

caille f (plural cailles)

  1. quail

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

caille

  1. inflection of cailler:
    1. first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish caille, from Latin pallium.[1] Doublet of pailliam.

Noun

caille f (genitive singular caille, nominative plural cailleacha)

  1. veil (covering for a person or thing)
Declension
Declension of caille (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative caille cailleacha
vocative a chaille a chailleacha
genitive caille cailleacha
dative caille cailleacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chaille na cailleacha
genitive na caille na gcailleacha
dative leis an gcaille
don chaille 		leis na cailleacha
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • caille chloiginn (“mantilla”)
  • roc na caille (“manta ray”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

caille

  1. genitive singular of caill

Mutation

Mutated forms of caille
radical lenition eclipsis
caille chaille gcaille

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 caille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkal͈ʲe]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pallium.[1] Doublet of paillium.

Noun

caille n

  1. veil
Inflection
Neuter io-stem
singular dual plural
nominative cailleN cailleL cailleL
vocative cailleN cailleL cailleL
accusative cailleN cailleL cailleL
genitive cailliL cailleL cailleN
dative cailliuL caillib caillib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Middle Irish: caille

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

caille f

  1. genitive singular of caill

Mutation

Mutation of caille
radical lenition nasalization
caille chaille caille
pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 caille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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