sionnachan
Appearance
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sionn (“phosphorescence”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sionnachan m (genitive singular sionnachain, plural sionnachain)
Derived terms
[edit]- sionnachan-mara (“milky sea effect”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition |
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sionnachan | shionnachan after "an", t-sionnachan |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sionnachan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN