stiall

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish stíall (strip, panel, slat, zone, border).[1] The verb is denominative from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

stiall f (genitive singular stéille, nominative plural stiallacha)

  1. strip, slice
  2. piece, part
  3. cut, stroke, lash
  4. (literary) strip, panel

Declension

Declension of stiall (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative stiall stiallacha
vocative a stiall a stiallacha
genitive stéille stiallacha
dative stiall stiallacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an stiall na stiallacha
genitive na stéille na stiallacha
dative leis an stiall
don stiall
leis na stiallacha

Derived terms

Verb

stiall (present analytic stiallann, future analytic stiallfaidh, verbal noun stialladh, past participle stiallta)

  1. to cut in strips
  2. to rend, tear
  3. to cut, lash, wound
  4. to make cutting remarks about, criticize
  5. to shred (of paper)

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “stíall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 352, page 121

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