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salaigh

salaigh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • (verb): saluigh (superseded)

Verb

salaigh (present analytic salaíonn, future analytic salóidh, verbal noun salú, past participle salaithe)

  1. (transitive) to make dirty, soil, defile, sully
    Is beag an rud a shalaíonn stocaí bána.
    It is a little thing that dirties white stockings (i.e. it is easy to sully someone’s good reputation)
  2. (intransitive) to become dirty, become worse

Conjugation

Related terms

Adjective

salaigh

  1. vocative singular masculine of salach
  2. genitive singular masculine of salach
  3. (archaic) dative singular feminine of salach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
salaigh shalaigh
after an, tsalaigh
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • salaigid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “saluighim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • "salaigh" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.