slige

• IPA^(key): [ˈsliːə], [ˈsliːi]

slige

1. inflection of slig:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• slioga

From Old Irish slice.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃl̠ʲɪɟɪ/

slige f (genitive singular slige, nominative plural sligí)

1. shell
2. shard
3. cresset, melting pot

• sligeach
• sligeán

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slige”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slice”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “slige”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “slige”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

From Old Irish slige, verbal noun of sligid (“to strike down, fell”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕl͈ʲiɣʲə/

slige f (genitive sliged or slige, nominative plural sligeda)

1. road, way, passage
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, lines 11, 13:

     Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. […] In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din chētgabāil, iss ed no·ithed.

     [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons. […] Each man who came along the passage would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he got at the first taking, it was that which he ate.

As a d-stem

• Genitive singular/plural: sliged
• Accusative/dative singular: sligid
• Nominative/accusative plural: sligeda
• Dative plural: sligthib

As an iā-stem

• Genitive singular: slige
• Accusative/dative singular: sligi

• Irish: slí
• Scottish Gaelic: slighe

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

From Old Irish sligid (“to hit, beat”), a way being a stretch of land where the soil has been beaten down.^[1]

slige f (genitive slige)

1. verbal noun of sligid: slaughter
2. way, path

• Middle Irish: slige
  • Irish: slí

Unknown. According to Pokorny, related to Etymology 1 above and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”), see also Proto-Slavic *slizъkъ (“smooth, slime”). This would make it also related to adslig (“to tempt, entreat”).^[2]

Despite the resemblance, not related to slinn (“shingle, flat weapenhead, weaver's reed”).^[3]

slige f

1. reed of a loom

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

From Old Irish slice.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃlʲɪkʲə/

slige f (genitive singular slige, plural sligean or sligeachan)

1. shell
2. (nautical) hull (of a ship)
3. bomb

• sligeach
• sligeanach