gairleag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gáirleóg f (“garlic”), borrowed from Old English gārlēac, from gār (“spear”) + lēac (“leek”).

Noun

gairleag f (genitive singular gairleige, no plural)

  1. garlic
    Synonym: creamh

Mutation

Mutation of gairleag
radical lenition
gairleag ghairleag

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) “gairleag”, 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), “gáirleóg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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.