sail

department (subdivision of an organization)

sail (absolutive indefinite)
saila (absolutive indefinite singular)
sailak (absolutive indefinite plural)
sailek (ergative indefinite)
sailak (ergative indefinite singular)
sailek (ergative indefinite plural)
saili (dative indefinite)
sailari (dative indefinite singular)
sailei (dative indefinite plural)
sailen (genitive indefinite)
sailaren (genitive indefinite singular)
sailen (genitive indefinite plural)
sailekin (comitative indefinite)
sailarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
sailekin (comitative indefinite plural)
sailengatik (causative indefinite)
sailarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
sailengatik (causative indefinite plural)
sailentzat (benefactive indefinite)
sailarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
sailentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
sailez (indefinite instrumental)
sailaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
sailez (indefinite instrumental plural)
sailetan (indefinite inessive)
sailean (indefinite inessive singular)
sailetan (indefinite inessive plural)
sailetako (indefinite locative)
saileko (indefinite locative singular)
sailetako (indefinite locative plural)
sailetara (allative indefinite)
sailera (allative indefinite singular)
sailetara (allative indefinite plural)
sailetaraino (indefinite terminative)
saileraino (indefinite singular terminative)
sailetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
sailetarantz (directive indefinite)
sailerantz (directive indefinite singular)
sailetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
sailetarako (destinative indefinite)
sailerako (destinative indefinite singular)
sailetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
sailetatik (ablative indefinite)
sailetik (ablative indefinite singular)
sailetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
sailik (indefinite partitive)
sailtzat (indefinite prolative)

Borrowed from Romance, compare Old French seille.


sail

(nautical) the fin or sail of a submarine

Borrowed from English sail. Doublet of zeil.


sail

When we haue laught to ſee the ſailes conceiue / And grow big bellied with the wanton winde; […]

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

(nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.

Take in sail: a storm is coming.

(nautical, uncountable) The concept of a sail or sails, as if a substance.

(uncountable) The power harnessed by a sail or sails, or the use of this power for travel or transport.

Let's go for a sail.

A trip in a boat, especially a sailboat.

Twenty sail were in sight.

"[…] The quay is upwards of 1,000 feet in length, and capable of accommodating more than 100 sail of traders; and there are generally a considerable number of vessels of from 40 to 300 tons burden, from various parts of the world, waiting to receive their cargoes."

1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 142, text published 1848:

(dated, plural "sail") A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

(nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.

A tower-like structure found on the dorsal (topside) surface of submarines.

Portuguese man-of-war
Portuguese man-of-war

The floating organ of siphonophores, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.

We caught three sails today.

(paleontology) an outward projection of the spine, occurring in certain dinosaurs and synapsids

Like an eagle […]soaring / / To weather his broad sails.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42:

Anything resembling a sail, such as a wing.

en-noun

sail (countable and uncountable, plural sails)

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

věž

a tower-like structure found on the topside of a submarine

From Middle English saile, sayle, seil, seyl, from Old English seġl, from Proto-West Germanic *segl, from Proto-Germanic *seglą. Cognate with West Frisian seil, Low German Segel, Dutch zeil, German Segel, Danish sejl, Swedish segel.


sail

Fair ship, that from the Italian shore,
Sailest the placid ocean-plains
With my lost Arthur’s loved remains,
Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto IX:

To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power.

To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl.

To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat.

We sail for Australia tomorrow.

(intransitive) To set sail; to begin a voyage.

As is a winged messenger of heaven, […] / When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, / And sails upon the bosom of the air.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

[flavor text of the card "Spirit of the Winds"] A spirit of the wind that freely sails the skies.

2002 March 20, Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (PlayStation video game, North American version), Konami:

A hopeful ball from Forest right-back Brendan Moloney to the left edge of the area was met first by Ruddy but his attempted clearance rebounded off Tyson's leg and sailed in.

2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport:

To move briskly and gracefully through the air.

The duchess sailed haughtily out of the room.

(intransitive) To move briskly but sedately.

He would sit his hat across the room, and we would sail cards into it.

2007, Johnny Hughes, Texas Poker Wisdom, page 22:

(card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.

en-verb

sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)

sails (present singular third-person)
sailing (participle present)
sailed (participle past)
sailed (past)

нося се

to move briskly and gracefully through the air

From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Danish sejle, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.


sail

sail mhiotail

sail pheaca

saile (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
sail (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a shail (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
saile (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an tsail (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
na saile (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an tsail (definite singular)
don tsail (definite singular)

From Old Irish sal, from Proto-Celtic *salā.


sail

willow (any of various trees or shrubs in the genus Salix)

head

sail f (genitive singular saileach, nominative plural saileacha)

saileach (genitive singular)
saileacha (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
sail (indefinite singular)
saileacha (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a shail (indefinite singular)
a shaileacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
saileach (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
sailigh (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an tsail (definite singular)
na saileacha (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na saileach (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an tsail (definite singular)
leis an tsailigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don tsail (definite singular)
don tsailigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na saileacha (definite plural)
nominative (indefinite)
sail (indefinite singular)
salacha (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a shail (indefinite singular)
a shalacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
salach (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
salaigh (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an tsail (definite singular)
na salacha (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na salach (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an tsail (definite singular)
leis an tsalaigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don tsail (definite singular)
don tsalaigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na salacha (definite plural)
sail
shail
tsail

From Old Irish sail, from Proto-Celtic *salixs (whence also Welsh helyg, Breton halegen), seemingly from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂el-ik-s or sl̥h₂-ik-s. Cognate with Latin salix, Old English sealh (English sallow), and Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), which all mean "willow", but the forms are hard to unify. The history of the word therefore must involve borrowing, possibly involving pre-Indo-European languages.


sail

sail (nominative singular)
sailu (nominative plural)
sail (accusative singular)
sailu (accusative plural)
sailas (genitive singular)
sailō (genitive plural)
sailē (dative singular)
sailum (dative plural)
sailu (instrumental singular)
sailum (instrumental plural)

desctree

Old English: sāl
Middle English: sal, sole, soole
Scots: sale, saill, saile, seill, seale
English: sole

Old Frisian: sēl, sēle

Saterland Frisian: Seel

West Frisian: seel

Old Saxon: sēl

Middle Low German: sêl, seil

German Low German: Seel

Old Dutch: *sēl

Middle Dutch: sêel

Dutch: zeel

Old High German: seil

Middle High German: seil

German: Seil

Luxembourgish: Seel


sail

sails (nominative plural)
sail (nominative singular)
sails (nominative plural)
saila (genitive singular)
sailas (genitive plural)
saile (dative singular)
sailes (dative plural)
saili (accusative singular)
sailis (accusative plural)
o sail! (singular vocative)
o sails! (plural vocative)
sailu (predicative singular)
sailus (plural predicative)


sail

From Middle Welsh seil, from Proto-Brythonic *söl, from Latin solea (“sole”).