gairleag
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish gáirleóg f (“garlic”), borrowed from Old English gārlēac, from gār (“spear”) + lēac (“leek”).
Noun
[edit]gairleag f (genitive singular gairleige, no plural)
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
gairleag | ghairleag |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “gairleag”, 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), “gáirleóg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language