caille

See also: caillé

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quaille, from Late Latin quaccola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʎ/

Noun

caille f (plural cailles)

1. quail

Derived terms

• caillot

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaj/ ~ /kɑj/

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• Rhymes: -aj, -ɑj

Etymology 1

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

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

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: kay

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish caille, from Latin pallium. Doublet of pailliam.

Noun

caille f (genitive singular caille, nominative plural cailleacha)

1. veil (covering for a person or thing)

Declension

Declension of caille (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative caille cailleacha vocative a chaille a chailleacha genitive caille cailleacha dative caille cailleacha forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an chaille na cailleacha genitive na caille na gcailleacha dative leis an gcaille don chaille leis na cailleacha

Synonyms

• fial

Derived terms

• caille chloiginn (“mantilla”)
• roc na caille (“manta ray”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

caille

1. genitive singular of caill

Mutation

Mutated forms of caille

radical	lenition	eclipsis
caille	chaille	gcaille

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “caille”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 105
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “caille”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.l̠ʲe/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.

Noun

caille n

1. veil

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

Synonyms

• bréit

Derived terms

• caillech

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

Mutation of caille

radical	lenition	nasalization
caille	chaille	caille pronounced with /ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.