sliocht
Irish (Donegal)
noun
Definitions
- offspring, progeny
- passage, tract, extract, reading, excerpt of text, piece of music, etc.
- composition, piece literary, musical
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish slicht (mark, trail, offspring, trace, section).
Origin
Old Irish
slicht
Gloss
mark, trail, offspring, trace, section
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- rí Irish
- ríshliocht Irish
- sliochtmhar Irish
- slicht Old Irish
- sliochd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- sluight Manx
- *slixtus Proto-Celtic