caille

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See also: caillé

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French , from Old French quaille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaj/, /kɑj/
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Adjective

caille (plural cailles)

  1. multicoloured, spotted
    • 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:
      A Versailles, à Versailles, / Sur la queue d’un’ grand’ vach’ caille.
      To Versailles, to Versailles, / On the tail of a big spotted cow.

Noun

caille f (plural cailles)

  1. quail

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Verb

caille

  1. inflection of cailler:
    1. first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.

Noun

caille n

  1. veil
    Synonym: bréit
Inflection
Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cailleN cailleL cailleL
Vocative cailleN cailleL cailleL
Accusative cailleN cailleL cailleL
Genitive cailliL cailleL cailleN
Dative cailliuL caillib caillib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
  • Middle Irish: caille

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

caille f

  1. genitive singular of caill

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
caille chaille caille
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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