aisil

From Old Irish aisil, aisel f (“part, division, joint”).

aisil f (genitive singular aisle, nominative plural aisle)

1. part, piece, joint

aisil f (genitive singular aisle, nominative plural aisle)

1. Alternative form of asal (“donkey, ass”)

aisil m

1. inflection of aiseal (“axle”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aisil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aisil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• aisel, asil

From Proto-Celtic *asselī; compare Breton ezel (“limb”) and Cornish esel (“limb”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈasʲilʲ/

aisil f (genitive aisle or aisli, nominative plural aisle or aisli)

1. (anatomy, land, etc.) part, division, joint.
2. (in the plural) fragments, pieces

• aisleán (“little joint”)

• Irish: aisil

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aisil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 44

• aisiol

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aisil f (genitive singular aisle, plural aislean)

1. axletree
2. axis

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “aisil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN