slane

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See also: Slane, slané, and słane

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.

Pronunciation

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Homophone: slain

Noun

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slane (plural slanes)

  1. (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’.

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish slán, from Proto-Celtic *slānos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (whole).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [slɛᵈn], [slɛːn]

Adjective

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slane

  1. well, sane, unhurt
  2. whole, entire, undivided, inviolate
  3. intact, unbroken
  4. absolute (of ruler)
  5. perfect, complete
  6. unexpurgated (as edition)

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Interjection

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slane

  1. goodbye
  2. chin-chin, cheers

Mutation

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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

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Serbo-Croatian

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Adjective

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slane

  1. inflection of slan:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

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slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)

  1. genitive singular of slana

Participle

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slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)

  1. feminine plural passive past participle of slati