salann

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish salann, from Proto-Celtic *salanos, *salenos, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsalˠən̪ˠ/

Noun

salann m (genitive singular salainn)

  1. salt

Declension
Declension of salann

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative salann
Vocative a shalainn
Genitive salainn
Dative salann

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an salann
Genitive an tsalainn
Dative leis an salann

don salann

Derived terms
  • coirt salainn (“salty crust”)
  • crothán salainn (“sprinkling of salt”)
  • cruinneachán salainn (“salt dome”)
  • foshalann (“subsalt”)
  • gráinne salainn (“a grain of salt”)
  • gráinnín salainn, pinsín salainn (“pinch of salt”)
  • leathchéad salainn (“half-hundredweight of salt”)
  • loch salainn (“salt lake”)
  • log salainn (“salt pan, salina, saline”)
  • sac salainn (“lady-chair”)
  • salanda (“saline”, adjective)
  • salann garbh (“coarse salt”)
  • salann líomóide (“salts of lemon”)
  • salannlus (“saltwort”)
  • salann mianra (“mineral salts”)
  • salann mín (“table-salt”)
  • salann miotalach (“metallic salt”)
  • salann sáile (“sea-salt”)
  • spréire salainn (“salt sprinkler”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
salann shalann
after an, tsalann		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "salann" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “salann” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *salanos, *salenos (compare Welsh halen), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls, whence also English salt, Latin sāl.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsalan͈/

Noun

salann m (genitive salainn, no plural)

  1. salt

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
salann ṡalann unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “salann” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish saland, from Proto-Celtic *salanos, *salenos, compare Latin sal and Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls).

Noun

salann m (genitive singular salainn, no plural)

  1. salt

Derived terms
  • poll-salainn (“salt pit”)
  • salann-fuail (“sal-ammoniac”)
  • salann-na-groide (“alkali”)
  • salann-tàthaidh (“borax”)

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
  • “salann” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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