dail

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See also: Dail, dáil, and dàil

Cebuano[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: da‧il

Noun[edit]

dail

  1. a full moon; the phase of the moon when it is in opposition to the sun
  2. the moon when it is in opposition to the sun

Anagrams[edit]

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

dail

  1. Romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse dalr (meadow, dale).

Noun[edit]

dail f (genitive singular daile, plural dailean)

  1. field, plain, meadow, dale

References[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “dail”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Southern Kam[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dail

  1. to die

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Brythonic *döl (whence also Breton del), from Proto-Celtic *dolyā. Cognate with Middle Irish duille, from Old Irish duilne, from a variant form *dolnyā; both are from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (blossom), whence also Ancient Greek θάλλω (thállō, to bloom), Old English dile (dill), and Old Armenian դալար (dalar, green, fresh).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dail f (collective, singulative deilen or dalen)

  1. leaves
  2. sheets (of paper)

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dail ddail nail unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dail”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 102