slane
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]slane (plural slanes)
- (Ireland) A one-eared spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘Slanes’.
Anagrams
[edit]- leans, Elans, enals, Elsan, L'Anse, Leans, nales, elans, Nales, Neals, neals, ELANs, élans, ANSEL, Ansel, lanes, slean
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish slán, from Proto-Celtic *slānos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slane
- well, sane, unhurt
- whole, entire, undivided, inviolate
- intact, unbroken
- absolute (of ruler)
- perfect, complete
- unexpurgated (as edition)
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]slane
Mutation
[edit]Manx mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
slane | lane after "yn", tlane |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slane
- inflection of slan:
Noun
[edit]slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)
Participle
[edit]slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)
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