sileog

Irish

From sil (“drip”) +‎ -óg, but influenced by seile (“saliva”).

sileog f (genitive singular sileoige, nominative plural sileoga)

Declension of sileog (second declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	sileog	sileoga
vocative	a shileog	a shileoga
genitive	sileoige	sileog
dative	sileog sileoig (archaic, dialectal)	sileoga

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an tsileog	na sileoga
genitive	na sileoige	na sileog
dative	leis an tsileog leis an tsileoig (archaic, dialectal) don tsileog don tsileoig (archaic, dialectal)	leis na sileoga

Mutated forms of *sileog*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
sileog	shileog after an, tsileog	not applicable

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

^ “sileog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 99, page 40

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “seileog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seileog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sileog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN