slige

• IPA^(key): ,

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.

     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