slige

• IPA^(key): [ˈsliːə], [ˈsliːi]

slige

1. inflection of slig:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• slioga

From Old Irish slice.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃl̠ʲɪɟɪ/

slige f (genitive singular slige, nominative plural sligí)

1. shell
2. shard
3. cresset, melting pot

• sligeach
• sligeán

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slige”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “slice”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “slige” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “slige” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Old Irish slige, verbal noun of sligid (“to strike down, fell”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to smear; to creep”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕl͈ʲiɣʲə/

slige f (genitive sliged or slige, nominative plural sligeda)

1. road, way, passage
   • c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 11, 13, page 1: “Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. […] In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din chētgabāil, iss ed no·ithed. ― [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons. […] Each man who came along the passage would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he got at the first taking, it was that which he ate.”

As a d-stem

• Genitive singular/plural: sliged
• Accusative/dative singular: sligid
• Nominative/accusative plural: sligeda
• Dative plural: sligthib

As an iā-stem

• Genitive singular: slige
• Accusative/dative singular: sligi

• Irish: slí
• Scottish Gaelic: slighe

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “slige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish sligid (“to hit, beat”), a way being a stretch of land where the soil has been beaten down.[1]

slige f (genitive slige)

1. verbal noun of sligid: slaughter
2. way, path

• Middle Irish: slige
  • Irish: slí

Unknown. Perhaps related to adslig (“to tempt, entreat”), not related to slinn (“shingle, flat weapenhead, weaver's reed”).[2]

slige f

1. reed of a loom

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “slige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish slice.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃlʲɪkʲə/

slige f (genitive singular slige, plural sligean or sligeachan)

1. shell
2. (nautical) hull (of a ship)
3. bomb

• sligeach
• sligeanach