seile

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See also: Seile and -seile

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

seile f (genitive singular seile, nominative plural seilí)

  1. spit, spittle
  2. saliva

Declension

Declension of seile

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative seile seilí
Vocative a sheile a sheilí
Genitive seile seilí
Dative seile seilí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tseile na seilí
Genitive na seile na seilí
Dative leis an tseile

don tseile

leis na seilí

Derived terms

  • seileagar (“saliva; (act of) dribbling at the mouth”)
  • seileogach (“given to spitting; salivary”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seile sheile
after an, tseile 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

Noun

seile m (genitive singular seile, plural seilean)

  1. saliva, spittle
  2. afterbirth

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
seile sheile
after "an", t-seile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seile”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 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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