seile

See also: Seile and -seile

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish saile (“sputum, spittle”) from Latin salīva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛlʲə/

Noun

seile f (genitive singular seile, nominative plural seilí)

  1. spit, spittle
  2. saliva

Declension

Declension of seile (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative seile seilí
vocative a sheile a sheilí
genitive seile seilí
dative seile seilí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tseile na seilí
genitive na seile na seilí
dative leis an tseile
don tseile 		leis na seilí

Derived terms

  • glas-seile (“water-brash”)
  • seile (na) cuaiche (“cuckoo-spit”)
  • seileach (“salivary”, adjective)
  • seileadán (“spittoon”)
  • seileog (“spit”)
  • seiligh (“spit, expectorate”, intransitive verb)
  • seileagar (“saliva; (act of) dribbling at the mouth”)
  • seileogach (“given to spitting; salivary”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of seile
radical lenition eclipsis
seile sheile
after an, tseile 		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

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse sigla.

Verb

seile (imperative seil, present tense seiler, simple past seilte, past participle seilt, present participle seilende)

  1. (nautical) to sail (travel in a boat, especially a sailing boat)

Derived terms

References

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish saile (“sputum, spittle”) from Latin salīva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃelə/

Noun

seile m (genitive singular seile, plural seilean)

  1. saliva, spittle
  2. afterbirth

Derived terms

  • fàireag-sheile (“saliva gland”)

Mutation

Mutation of seile
radical lenition
seile sheile
after "an", t-seile

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seile”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 saile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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