saill

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /sˠail̠ʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /sˠæl̠ʲ/

From Old Irish saill (“salted meat, bacon”).

saill f (genitive singular saille)

1. salted meat
2. fatty meat, fat, lard

• sailleach
• brat saille
• fíochán saille
• saill ime

• saillteacht f (“saltiness”)

From Old Irish saillid (“he salts, cures”), from saill.

saill (present analytic sailleann, future analytic saillfidh, verbal noun sailleadh, past participle saillte)

1. (transitive, intransitive) salt, cure
2. (figuratively, of speech) season
3. (figuratively, of person) grossly overcharge, fleece

• iasc saillte (“salt fish”)
• saillteoir (“salter, curer”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “saill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saillid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 7

• sall

From Proto-Celtic *salnā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”).

• IPA^(key): /sal͈ʲ/

saill f (genitive saille)

1. salted meat, especially bacon

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	saillL	—	—
Vocative	saillL	—	—
Accusative	saillN	—	—
Genitive	sailleH	—	—
Dative	saillL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• saillid (“salts, cures”, verb)

• Irish: saill
• Manx: sahll
• Scottish Gaelic: saill

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /saiʎ/

From Old Irish saill (“salted meat, bacon”).

saill f (genitive singular saille)

1. fat, grease, suet

• sult m (“fat”)

From Old Irish saillid (“he salts, cures”), from saill.

saill (past shaill, future saillidh, verbal noun sailleadh, past participle saillte)

1. pickle, cure, preserve, salt

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “saill”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saill”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saillid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language