quiggal

Manx

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish cuicél,[1] cognate with Irish coigeal and Scottish Gaelic cuigeal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwiɡʲal/

Noun

quiggal f (genitive singular quiggal, plural quiggalyn)

  1. distaff

Mutation

Mutation of quiggal
radical lenition eclipsis
quiggal whiggal guiggal

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuicél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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