Gilleasbaig

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From gille (“servant”) +‎ easbaig (“bishop”), with the second element of the name being derived from Latin episcopus.

The origin of the Anglicisation Archibald is obscure, but could possibly be based on the word archbishop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡ̥ʲɪˈʎes̪pɪkʲ/[1]

Proper noun

Gilleasbaig m (genitive Ghilleasbaig or 'Illeasbaig, vocative a Ghilleasbaig or 'Illeasbaig, diminutive Gilleasbachan or Eairdsidh)

  1. a male given name from Old Irish, equivalent to English Gillespie or Archibald, though the latter is etymologically unrelated.

Mutation

Mutation of Gilleasbaig
radical lenition
Gilleasbaig Ghilleasbaig

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

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.