assyl
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Manx[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish asal (“ass, she-ass”), from Latin asellus (“small or young donkey”).
Noun[edit]
assyl m (genitive singular assyl, plural assylyn)
Derived terms[edit]
- assyl bwoirrin, laair assyl (“she-ass”)
- assyl feie, assyl oaldey (“wild ass”)
- caairt assyl (“donkey-cart”)
- collagh assyl (“jackass”)
- immanagh assyl (“donkey-driver”)
- lhiy assyl (“donkey-colt”)
- sharragh assyl (“donkey-foal”)
Further reading[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “asal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language