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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish staíc (“steak, piece of meat”), from Old Norse steik. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic staoig.
Pronunciation
Noun
stéig f (genitive singular stéige, nominative plural stéigeacha or stéigeanna)
- slice (of meat, flesh); strip
- steak
- (anatomy) gut, intestine
Declension
Derived terms
Derived terms
- (steak):
- (intestine):
- (strip):
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “stéig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “staíc, staéc, staci”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language