samail

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saˈmaʔil/ [saˈma.ʔil̪]
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ma‧il

Noun

samáil (Basahan spelling ᜐᜋᜁᜎ᜔)

  1. (anatomy, angry register) foot
    Synonyms: samingkil, singkil

See also

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *samalis (“similitude, description”), cognate with Welsh hafal (“equal”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂el-ó- (“having the same upbringing”), a compound of Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- (“with, together”) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”)[2] which also gave rise to Latin similis (“similar”) and Ancient Greek ὁμαλός (homalós, “same, smooth”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsaβ̃ɨlʲ]

Noun

samail f

  1. verbal noun of samlaidir
  2. likeness, similarity
  3. description
  4. simile, metaphor
  5. (with following genitive or preceding possessive) that which something is to be likened to or is like
  6. the like of, such a

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
singular dual plural
nominative samail samailL samlaiH
vocative samail samailL samlaiH
accusative samailN samailL samlaiH
genitive samloH, samlaH samloH, samlaH samlaeN
dative samailL samlaib samlaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: samhail
  • Scottish Gaelic: samhla

Preposition

samail

  1. like, as

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of samail
radical lenition nasalization
samail ṡamail samail

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “Samali-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 726

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.