sál

sál

1. (Ditti) palm-leaf broom

• éjèl (Afitti)

• Alex de Voogt, A sketch of Affiti phonology, in Studies in African Linguistics 38:1 (2009)

• IPA^(key):

Borrowed from German Saal.^[1][2]

sál m inan

1. room
2. saloon
3. hall
4. theater (operating theater for surgery)

   Zraněného přivezli na operační sál.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sál

1. third-person singular masculine past of sát

• “sál”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sál”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from German Schal, from English shawl, from Persian شال (šâl, “shawl, scarf”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sál
• Rhymes: -aːl

sál (plural sálak)

1. scarf
2. shawl

• nyaksál

• sál in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /sauːl/

  Rhymes: -auːl

From Old Norse sál, from Old English sāwol, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwlu, *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō.^[1]

sál f (genitive singular sálar, nominative plural sálir)

1. a soul
   • Einar Benediktsson

     Aðgát skal höfð í nærveru sálar.

     Exercise caution in the presence of a soul.

   Blóð er gjaldmiðill sálarinnar.

   Blood is the currency of the soul.

Attested since the 16th century; origin uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sahalō, from the root *seh- (“to cut”), originally denoting a bag sewn from cut-out pieces of skin; or perhaps from *sawalō, related to sjóður (“purse”), or from *saihalō, related to sár (“cask”).

sál f (genitive singular sálar, nominative plural sálar)

1. a skin bag

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)

• lás
• slá

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠɑːl̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /sˠɑːlˠ/, /sˠɑːl̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /sˠaːlˠ/, /sˠaːl̪ˠ/^[2]

sál f pl

1. genitive plural of sáil

sál f (genitive singular sáile, nominative plural sála)

1. Alternative form of sáil (“heel”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sál”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /saːl/

From Proto-Celtic *sālos (whence Welsh hâl (“salty water”)), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.^[1] Akin to Latin sal and English salt.

sál m

1. salt water, brine, seawater
2. (poetic, by extension) sea, ocean
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 1132

     sáil-onn .i. cloch sáil

     sea-rock i.e. rock of the sea

• sáile

• Irish: sáile
• Scottish Gaelic: sàl

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sál (‘salt water’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *stātlā (compare Welsh sawdl), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).

sál f

1. heel
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 68^b7

     sál ― (glosses Latin calx)

• sál tre assa (“tonsure”, literally “heel through the shoe”)

• Irish: sáil
• Manx: saayl
• Scottish Gaelic: sàil

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 sál (‘heel’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*stātlā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 354