sileog

Irish

Alternative forms

  • seileog
  • sileóg, seileóg (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From sil (“drip”) +‎ -óg, but influenced by seile (“saliva”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sileog f (genitive singular sileoige, nominative plural sileoga)

  1. spit, spittle

Declension

Declension of sileog (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sileog sileoga
vocative a shileog a shileoga
genitive sileoige sileog
dative sileog
sileoig (archaic, dialectal) 		sileoga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tsileog na sileoga
genitive na sileoige na sileog
dative leis an tsileog
leis an tsileoig (archaic, dialectal)
don tsileog
don tsileoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na sileoga

Mutation

Mutated forms of sileog
radical lenition eclipsis
sileog shileog
after an, tsileog 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “sileog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 99, page 40

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