mèirleach
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish meirlech (“a robber, a bandit”). By surface analysis, mèirle + -ach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mèirleach m (genitive singular mèirlich, plural mèirlich)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mèirleach (type I masculine noun)
| Indefinite | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | mèirleach | mèirlich |
| Genitive | mèirlich | mhèirleach |
| Dative | mèirleach | mèirlich; mèirleachaibh✝ |
| Definite | ||
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | (am) mèirleach | (na) mèirlich |
| Genitive | (a') mhèirlich | (nam) mèirleach |
| Dative | (a') mhèirleach | (na) mèirlich; mèirleachaibh✝ |
| Vocative | mhèirlich | mhèirleacha |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| mèirleach | mhèirleach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 meirlech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
- ^ Donald A. Morrison (2020) Modularity and stratification in phonology: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic (Thesis)[1], Manchester: University of Manchester
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)[2], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh