assyl

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish asal (“ass, she-ass”), from Latin asellus (“small or young donkey”).

Noun

assyl m (genitive singular assyl, plural assylyn)

1. ass, donkey

Derived terms

• 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “asal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language