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Irish
Etymology
From English split in the sense “piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment”.
Pronunciation
Noun
spliota m (genitive singular spliota, nominative plural spliotaí)
- splint (narrow strip of wood)
- splinter (fragment of material)
- Synonyms: scealp, scealpóg
Declension
Further reading
- “spliota”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “spliota”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 38