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Irish
Pronunciation
- Noun:
- Past autonomous verb form:
- Past habitual, past subjunctive and imperative verb forms:
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈʃɪlʲəx/
- (Galway) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈʃɪlʲətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈʃɪlʲəx/
- (Mayo) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈʃɪlʲətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈʃɪlʲuː/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈʃɨ̞lʲətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈʃɨ̞lʲu/
Noun
sileadh m (genitive singular as substantive silidh, genitive as verbal noun silte)
- verbal noun of sil
- (medicine) discharge (pus or exudate from a wound or orifice), pus, matter
- Synonyms: brach, angadh
- drip (act of dripping), leakage (act of leaking)
- drop (act or instance of dropping), distillation (act of falling in drops)
- flow (movement of a fluid)
- Synonym: sreabh
Declension
As a substantive:
As a verbal noun:
Verb
sileadh
- inflection of sil:
- autonomous past indicative
- analytic past habitual
- analytic past subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| sileadh
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shileadh
after an, tsileadh
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “siled”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sileaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 640
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sileadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40