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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish frangcach (compare Irish Francach). By surface analysis, An Fhraing (“France”) + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Frangach (genitive singular masculine Frangaich, genitive singular feminine Frangaiche)
- French
Declension
Derived terms
Noun
Frangach m (genitive singular Frangaich, plural Frangaich)
- Frenchman
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “Frangach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “frangcach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language