slane

See also: Slane and słane

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sleɪn/, /slɑ:n/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Homophone: slain

Noun

slane (plural slanes)

  1. (Ireland) A spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.
    • 1997: Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘Slanes’. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Anagrams

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish slán.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [slɛᵈn], [slɛːn]

Adjective

slane

  1. well, sane, unhurt
  2. whole, entire, undivided, inviolate
  3. intact, unbroken
  4. absolute (of ruler)
  5. perfect, complete
  6. unexpurgated (as edition)

Antonyms

Derived terms

Interjection

slane

  1. goodbye
  2. chin-chin, cheers

Mutation
Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
slanelane
after "yn", tlane		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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