caille
See also: caillé
Champenois
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French quaille, from Late Latin quaccola.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcaille f (plural cailles)
Derived terms
editReferences
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcaille (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
editcaille f (plural cailles)
Synonyms
edit- (Louisiana) perdrix
Derived terms
editVerb
editcaille
- inflection of cailler:
Further reading
edit- “caille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Irish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.
Noun
editcaille n
Inflection
editNeuter 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
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editcaille f
Mutation
editradical | lenition | nasalization |
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caille | chaille | caille pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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