asail

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ sail.

Pronunciation

Adjective

asail (not comparable)

  1. in the state of sailing
    • 1901, Edward Hutton, Frederic Uvedale: A Romance, page 196:
      Tonight the church seems to have a separate existence, apart from the world or even Rome; to be more spiritual, more insubstantial than even the Trinita there. A ship asail in the Campagna, the only living thing in all that distance, and even then alive but so half-heartedly.
    • 1980, Graham Nash, quoted in 2009, Dave Zimmer, Four Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader, page 235:
      And that night, Stephen and I went back to my house here in Los Angeles, got drunk and decided that we would try one more time to get this ship asail.
    • 2000, J. N. Williamson, Frights of Fancy, page 234:
      Beautiful, the ocean at night, whether upon or just peering out at it. Beautiful, and teeming infinitely with life, even when there was no ship asail upon its cresting bosom—like now.

Anagrams

Irish

Noun

asail m

  1. inflection of asal:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
asail n-asail hasail not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

asail m sg

  1. genitive singular of asal

Mutation

Mutation of asail
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
asail n-asail h-asail t-asail

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

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