slane

See also: Slane, slané, and słane

English

Alternative forms

• slean

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sleɪn/, /slɑːn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

Homophone: slain

Noun

slane (plural slanes)

1. (Ireland) A one-eared spade for cutting turf or peat, consisting of an iron flat-bladed head and a long wooden shaft.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Little McTiernan at the Door is giving out short-handl’d Peat-Cutters styl’d, by the Irish, ‘Slanes’.

Anagrams

• leans, Elans, enals, Elsan, L'Anse, Leans, nales, elans, Nales, Neals, neals, ELANs, élans, ANSEL, Ansel, lanes, slean

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish slán, from Proto-Celtic *slānos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”).

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

• neuslane

Derived terms

• slanid

Interjection

slane

1. goodbye
2. chin-chin, cheers

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
slane	lane after "yn", tlane	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

slane

1. inflection of slan:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun

slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)

1. genitive singular of slana

Participle

slane (Cyrillic spelling слане)

1. feminine plural passive past participle of slati