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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
dubh (“black, dark”) + gall (“stranger, foreigner”). Compare Irish Dubhghall.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dùghall m (genitive Dhùghaill, vocative a Dhùghaill)
- a male given name from Old Irish, equivalent to English Dougal
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis), Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh