Gàidheal

See also: Gaidheal

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish Goídel (“Irishman”), from Proto-Brythonic *guɨðel (the ancestor of Welsh gwyddel (“raider”)), from Proto-Celtic *weidelos (“savage, woodsman”), related to Scottish Gaelic fiadh (“deer”) through native Goidelic development, from *weidus (“wild”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“wood, wilderness”) (compare Old English wāþ (“hunt”)).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

Gàidheal m (genitive singular Gàidheil, plural Gàidheil)

  1. Gael, Highlander

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of Gàidheal
radical lenition
Gàidheal Ghàidheal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 408
  2. ^ Jenny Ladefoged, Peter Ladefoged, Alice Turk, Kevin Hind (5 February 1996) “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[2], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  5. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  6. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 17
  7. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 85
  8. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN, page 279
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