salaigh

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈsˠɑl̪ˠɪɟ/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈsˠalˠə/
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈsˠalˠiː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈsˠalˠi/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish salaigid.[1] By surface analysis, sail +‎ -igh.

Alternative forms

Verb

salaigh (present analytic salaíonn, future analytic salóidh, verbal noun salú, past participle salaithe)

  1. (transitive) to make dirty, soil, defile, sully
    Is beag an rud a shalaíonn stocaí bána.
    It is a little thing that dirties white stockings (i.e. it is easy to sully someone’s good reputation)
  2. (intransitive) to become dirty, become worse
Conjugation

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

salaigh

  1. inflection of salach:
    1. vocative/genitive singular masculine
    2. (archaic) dative singular feminine

Noun

salaigh

  1. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of sail
  2. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of salach

Mutation

Mutated forms of salaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
salaigh shalaigh
after an, tsalaigh
not applicable

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), “salaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language