caille
See also: caillé
French
Etymology
From Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaj/, /kɑj/
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Adjective
caille (plural cailles)
- 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.
- 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:
Noun
caille f (plural cailles)
- quail
Synonyms
- (Louisiana) perdrix
Derived terms
- caille des blés
- roi des cailles
Verb
caille
- inflection of cailler:
- first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
- 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
- veil
- Synonym: bréit
Inflection
Neuter io-stem | |||
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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:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: caille
- Irish: caille
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
caille f
- genitive singular of caill
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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. |