mìlsean
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See also: milseán
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish millsén (“sweetmeat, delicacy”) (compare modern Irish milseán). By surface analysis, milis (“sweet”) + -an (diminutive suffix).
Noun
[edit]mìlsean m (genitive singular mìlsein, plural mìlseanan)
- dessert, pudding, confection, sweet (course)
See also
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| mìlsean | mhìlsean |
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]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “mìlsean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “millsén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language