sliotar

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Irish sliotar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈslɪtər/, /ˈʃlɪtər/,
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

sliotar (plural sliotars)

  1. A hard ball, similar in size to a baseball, used in hurling.

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

sliotar m (genitive singular sliotair, nominative plural sliotair)

  1. (hurling) sliotar

Declension

Declension of sliotar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative sliotar sliotair
vocative a shliotair a shliotara
genitive sliotair sliotar
dative sliotar sliotair
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an sliotar na sliotair
genitive an tsliotair na sliotar
dative leis an sliotar
don sliotar
leis na sliotair

Mutation

Mutated forms of sliotar
radical lenition eclipsis
sliotar shliotar
after an, tsliotar
not applicable

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