caille

Inherited from Old French quaille, from Late Latin quaccola.

IPA^(key): /kaʎ/

caille f (plural cailles)

1. quail

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.

• IPA^(key): /kaj/ ~ /kɑj/

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caille (plural cailles)

1. multicoloured, spotted
   • 1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25:

     A Versailles, à Versailles, / Sur la queue d’un’ grand’ vach’ caille.

     To Versailles, to Versailles, / On the tail of a big spotted cow.

caille f (plural cailles)

1. quail

• (Louisiana) perdrix

• caille des blés
• roi des cailles

caille

1. inflection of cailler:
   1. first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “caille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal͈ʲe/

Borrowed from Latin pallium. Doublet of paillium.

caille n

1. veil

   Synonym: bréit

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cailleN	cailleL	cailleL
Vocative	cailleN	cailleL	cailleL
Accusative	cailleN	cailleL	cailleL
Genitive	cailliL	cailleL	cailleN
Dative	cailliuL	caillib	caillib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• Middle Irish: caille
  • Irish: caille

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

caille f

1. genitive singular of caill