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A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales. Thus a piebald black and white dog is a black dog with white spots. The animal's skin under the white background is not pigmented. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piebald - 14.06.2025)
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GLE-1: de Bhaldraithe (1959): (Capall) breac = 1. dapple-grey (horse); 2. piebald (horse); 3. trout-coloured (horse). Ó Dónaill (1977): Capall breac = dapple-grey horse.
..... D'fhéadfaí a rá, b'fhéidir, go bhfuil an coincheap 'capall breac' níos leithne ná patrún amháin i nGaeilge na hÉireann, agus seans go mbaineann sé le dhá dhath a bheith i láthair ar an chapall (?)
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Othermajor European languages: http://www.kellas-stud.co.uk/colour.htm
BLACK BROWN
ZWARTBRUIN
SORTBRUN
SVARTBRUN
SCHWARTZBRAUN
BRÚNN
BAI BRUN
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GLAeach
GLEcapall caighdeán cúng / meanraimis (AIRE: capall = 'láir' .i. 'capall baineann' in Iarthar Uladh agus i dTuaisceart Chonnacht) (Hughes, 1994))
capall clóite caint na n-eolaithe
gearrán caint na ndaoine (McCone et al. (1994). Lch 613. GLE-1 (Iarthair Uladh fosta))
Oirthear Uladh:
LAT-1: Equus (ferus) caballus
GLE-1: D'fhéadfaí cur le líon na samplaí seo, m.sh. úsáid an bhriaithair 'arsaigh' [inis] in Oirtheat Uladh (Williams, 1970), nó cur in éadan cuid de na samplaí thuasluaite: m.sh., úsádi fhorleathan an fhocail 'gearrán' taobh le 'beathach' mar 'capall' i d Tir Chonaill (Hughes, 1994, SS8-10). Lch 613
— McCone et al. (1994). Stair na Gaeilge in ómós do Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
Each le aon chas geal: cheannaich e;
Each le dhà cois ghil: cheannach e;
Each le trì casa geala: seachain, seachain, seachain e!
— BBC Alba (2008). Beul Chainnt. S1 E2
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GLE-1: AIRE! - Bíonn ciallacha éagsúla ar an fhocal seo ag brath ar an cheantar agus ar an chomhthéacs (https://www.teanglann.ie/ga/fgb/beith%c3%adoch)
Each le aon chas geal: cheannaich e;
Each le dhà cois ghil: cheannach e;
Each le trì casa geala: seachain, seachain, seachain e!
— BBC Alba (2008). Beul Chainnt. S1 E2
GLE-2: BEITHÍOCH
Thig leat beithíoch a thabhairt go dtige an t-uisce
— Lucas (1979). Grammar of Ros Goill Irish Co. Donegal
Na trí rud is fealltaí: cois chapaill, fiacail madaidh nó focal duine uasail
https://focloiruichadhain.ria.ie/1/?txt=capall
— Foclóir Mháirtín Uí Chadhain (https://focloiruichadhain.ria.ie/)
RELATED TERMS
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Capall fireann atá coillte
A castrated horse
GLE-1: Tá '3' chiall eile leis an fhocal 'gearrán'. CIALL 1 - 'gearrán' = 'capall ualaigh' [FGB 2(a)]); CIALL 2 - 'gearrán' = 'capall' [Oirthear Uladh agus Tuaisceart Chonnacht - canúintí ina dtugtar/inar tugadh 'capall' ar 'láir']; CIALL '3' - 'gearrán' = 'capall (fireann)' [FGB 1(b)]
Le tuilleadh eolais a fháil ar na focail 'capall', 'gearrán', 'láir' sna canúintí, léigh: Arthur John Hughes, “Les mots qui désignent « le cheval » dans les langues gaéliques, du point de vue de la géographie linguistique”, La Bretagne Linguistique [Online], 8 | 1992, Online since 01 January 2022, connection on 16 June 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lbl/5667; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lbl.5667
