ospadal

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish ospitél (compare Irish ospidéal), from Anglo-Norman ospitel, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Noun

ospadal m (genitive singular ospadail, plural ospadalan)

1. hospital

   Synonyms: taigh-eiridinn, taigh-leighis, taigh-tinneis

Mutation

Mutation of ospadal

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ospadal	n-ospadal	h-ospadal	t-ospadal

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) “ospadal”, 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), “ospitél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language