càmhal

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• cam-all, càmhul, gàmal

Etymology

From Old Irish camall, from Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camēlus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kãː.əl̪ˠ/

Noun

càmhal m (genitive singular càmhail, plural càmhail)

1. camel

Derived terms

• càmhal Bactriach (“Bactrian camel”)

Mutation

Mutation of càmhal

radical	lenition
càmhal	chàmhal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “càmhal”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “camall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language