# caille
## Champenois
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French quaille, from Late Latin quaccola.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /kaʎ/

### Noun

caille f (plural cailles)
* quail

#### Derived terms

* caillot

### References

* Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
* Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaj/ ~ /kɑj/
* Audio:(file)

### 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.

### 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.

## Irish
### Etymology 1

From Old Irish caille, from Latin pallium. Doublet of pailliam.

#### Noun

caille f (genitive singular caille, nominative plural cailleacha)
* veil (covering for a person or thing)

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
caille
cailleacha
vocative
a chaille
a chailleacha
genitive
caille
cailleacha
dative
caille
cailleacha
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an chaille
na cailleacha
genitive
na caille
na gcailleacha
dative
leis an gcaille don chaille
leis na cailleacha :

##### Synonyms

* fial

##### Derived terms

* caille chloiginn (“mantilla”)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

caille
* genitive singular of caill

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 caille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caille”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 105
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caille”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkal͈ʲe]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.

#### Noun

caille n
* veil

##### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

##### Synonyms

* bréit

##### Derived terms

* caillech

##### Descendants

* Middle Irish: caille
** Irish: caille

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

caille f
* genitive singular of caill

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 caille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language