gealag

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From geal (“white; pale”) +‎ -ag.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡ̊ʲal̪ˠak/[1]

Noun

gealag f (genitive singular gealaig, plural gealagan)

  1. bunting (bird)
  2. sea trout

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of gealag
radical lenition
gealag ghealag

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

References

  1. ^ 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
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