# slige
## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsliːə], [ˈsliːi]

### Adjective

slige
* inflection of slig:
** definite singular
** plural

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* slioga

### Etymology

From Old Irish slice.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃl̠ʲɪɟɪ/

### Noun

slige f (genitive singular slige, nominative plural sligí)
* shell
* shard
* cresset, melting pot

#### Declension

Third declension

#### Derived terms

* sligeach
* sligeán

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slige”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slice”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “slige”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “slige”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

## Middle Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish slige, verbal noun of sligid (“to strike down, fell”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyǵ- (“to smear; to creep”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɕl͈ʲiɣʲə/

### Noun

slige f (genitive sliged or slige, nominative plural sligeda)
* road, way, passage
** c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 1, lines 11, 13:Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. […] In fer no·t⟨h⟩ēged iarsint ṡligi do·bered in n-aēl isin coiri, ocus a·taibred din chētgabāil, iss ed no·ithed.[There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons. […] Each man who came along the passage would put the flesh-fork into the cauldron, and whatever he got at the first taking, it was that which he ate.

#### Declension

As a d-stem
* Genitive singular/plural: sliged
* Accusative/dative singular: sligid
* Nominative/accusative plural: sligeda
* Dative plural: sligthib
As an iā-stem
* Genitive singular: slige
* Accusative/dative singular: sligi

#### Descendants

* Irish: slí
* Scottish Gaelic: slighe

### Further reading

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

## Old Irish
### Etymology 1

From Old Irish sligid (“to hit, beat”), a way being a stretch of land where the soil has been beaten down.

#### Noun

slige f (genitive slige)
* verbal noun of sligid: slaughter
* way, path

##### Inflection

Feminine iā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | slige$^L$ | sligi$^L$ | sligi |
| Vocative | slige$^L$ | sligi$^L$ | sligi |
| Accusative | sligi$^N$ | sligi$^L$ | sligi |
| Genitive | slige | slige$^L$ | slige$^N$ |
| Dative | sligi$^L$ | sligib | sligib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

##### Descendants

* Middle Irish: slige
** Irish: slí

### Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps related to adslig (“to tempt, entreat”), not related to slinn (“shingle, flat weapenhead, weaver's reed”).

#### Noun

slige f
* reed of a loom

### Further reading

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

### References

* ↑ Vendryes, Joseph (1974) “1 slige”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume R-S, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, pages S-133-34
* ↑ Vendryes, Joseph (1974) “2 slige”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume R-S, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page S-134

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish slice.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃlʲɪkʲə/

### Noun

slige f (genitive singular slige, plural sligean or sligeachan)
* shell
* (nautical) hull (of a ship)
* bomb

#### Declension

$^✝$ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
$^✝$ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

#### Derived terms

* sligeach
* sligeanach