"caille" meaning in Irish

See caille in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Old Irish caille, from Latin pallium. Doublet of pailliam. Etymology templates: {{der|ga|sga|caille}} Old Irish caille, {{der|ga|la|pallium}} Latin pallium, {{doublet|ga|pailliam}} Doublet of pailliam Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|caille|||||||nominative plural|cailleacha|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} caille f (genitive singular caille, nominative plural cailleacha), {{ga-noun|f|~|~acha}} caille f (genitive singular caille, nominative plural cailleacha) Forms: caille [genitive, singular], cailleacha [nominative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], caille [indefinite, nominative, singular], cailleacha [indefinite, nominative, plural], a chaille [indefinite, singular, vocative], a chailleacha [indefinite, plural, vocative], caille [genitive, indefinite, singular], cailleacha [genitive, indefinite, plural], caille [dative, indefinite, singular], cailleacha [dative, indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], an chaille [definite, nominative, singular], na cailleacha [definite, nominative, plural], na caille [definite, genitive, singular], na gcailleacha [definite, genitive, plural], leis an gcaille [dative, definite, singular], don chaille [dative, definite, singular], leis na cailleacha [dative, definite, plural]
  1. veil (covering for a person or thing) Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Clothing Synonyms: fial Derived forms: caille chloiginn (english: mantilla)
    Sense id: en-caille-ga-noun-U8uYKZZa Disambiguation of Clothing: 89 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], caille [error-unrecognized-form], chaille [error-unrecognized-form], gcaille [error-unrecognized-form]
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Etymology templates: {{nonlemma}} See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}}
  1. genitive singular of caill Tags: form-of, genitive, singular Form of: caill
    Sense id: en-caille-ga-noun-wy60updU Categories (other): Old Irish entries with incorrect language header, Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old Irish entries with incorrect language header: 24 22 1 4 15 6 10 7 10 Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for caille meaning in Irish (4.5kB)

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