different between slade vs slane

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sle?d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-Germanic *slad? (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladan? (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”).

Noun

slade (plural slades)

1. (now rare or dialectal) A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.

   • Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.

   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 222[1]:

     The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades,

     And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades

     The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)

     That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.

2. (obsolete) The sole of a plough.

Etymology 2

Noun

slade (plural slades)

1. A spade for digging peat.

Anagrams

• Dales, Delas, dales, deals, desal, lades, lased, leads, seal'd

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slad?]

Noun

slade

1. vocative singular of slad

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

slade (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. vocative singular of slad

English

Alternative forms

• slean

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish sleán, sleaghán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sle?n/, /sl?:n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

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.

Anagrams

• ANSEL, Ansel, ELANs, Elsan, L'Anse, Nales, elans, enals, lanes, leans, neals, slean

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish slán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sl??n], [sl??n]

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

Further reading

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