sailleach

Irish

Etymology

From saill +‎ -ach.

Adjective

sailleach (genitive singular masculine sailligh, genitive singular feminine saillí, plural sailleacha, comparative saillí)

1. fatty, adipose

Declension

Declension of sailleach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	sailleach	shailleach	sailleacha; shailleacha²
Vocative	shailligh		sailleacha
Genitive		saillí	sailleacha	sailleach
Dative	sailleach; shailleach¹	shailleach; shailligh (archaic)	sailleacha; shailleacha²
Comparative	níos saillí
Superlative	is saillí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• aigéad sailleach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sailleach	shailleach after an, tsailleach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sailleach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sailleach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “sailleach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024