cuarantain

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English quarantine, from Italian quarantina (“forty days”), the period Venetians customarily kept ships from plague-ridden countries waiting off port.

Noun

cuarantain m (genitive singular cuarantain, plural cuarantain)

1. quarantine

Derived terms

• ospadal cuarantain (“quarantine hospital”)

Mutation

Mutation of cuarantain

radical	lenition
cuarantain	chuarantain

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