caille

See also: caillé

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaj/, /kɑj/

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Adjective

caille (plural cailles)

1. multicoloured, spotted
   • 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:

     A Versailles, à Versailles, / Sur la queue d’un’ grand’ vach’ caille.

     To Versailles, to Versailles, / On the tail of a big spotted cow.

Noun

caille f (plural cailles)

1. quail

Synonyms

• (Louisiana) perdrix

Derived terms

• caille des blés
• roi des cailles

Verb

caille

1. inflection of cailler:
   1. first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “caille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal͈ʲe/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.

Noun

caille n

1. veil

   Synonym: bréit

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cailleN	cailleL	cailleL
Vocative	cailleN	cailleL	cailleL
Accusative	cailleN	cailleL	cailleL
Genitive	cailliL	cailleL	cailleN
Dative	cailliuL	caillib	caillib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: caille
  • Irish: caille

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

caille f

1. genitive singular of caill

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
caille	chaille	caille pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.